Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz.

Abstract:

Alchemical treatise about the philosophers' stone divided into seven "tracts."

Creator:

Trismosin, Salomon.

Date:

1550

Identifier:

9915804503503681; (OCoLC)ocn155962421; (OCoLC)155962421; (CStRLIN)PAUR94-A164; (PU)1580450-penndb-Voyager

Language:

German

Provenance:

Acquired, 1952.

Publisher:

[Germany], [between 1550 and 1599]

Subject:

Alchemy.; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Treatises.; Manuscripts, German.; Codices.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

41 leaves : parchment; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm

Rights:

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Notes:

Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....; Ms. codex.; Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.; Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.; Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century.; No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.; Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.; German.

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 108