[La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie].

Abstract:

Collection of recipes and instructions for making colors, perfumes, soap, dyes, engraving, illuminating, making marble paper, making mirrors, preserving wine, etc. Contains over 200 different recipes and instructions.

Date:

1500

Identifier:

9915805113503681; (OCoLC)ocn155962548; (OCoLC)155962548; (CStRLIN)PAUR94-A225; (PU)1580511-penndb-Voyager

Language:

French

Provenance:

Acquired, 1960.

Publisher:

[France], [between 1500 and 1599]

Relation:

Contre faire une croix de corail.; Kunstbuechlein.

Subject:

Chemistry -- History -- Early works to 1800.; Alchemy.; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.; Colors -- Early works to 1800.; Dyes and dyeing -- Early works to 1800.; Perfumes -- Early works to 1800.; Perfumes.; Dyes and dyeing.; Colors.; History.; Chemistry.; Codices.; Recipes.; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Manuscripts, French.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

35 leaves : paper illustrations; 173 x 115 mm bound to 182 x 117 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Collation: Paper, ii (17th-century paper) + 35 + ii (17th-century paper); [i], 1²⁶, 2⁸(-8); [ii], 1-65, [66-68]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; Title from spine. Title in Zacour-Hirsch is "Kunstbuechlein."; Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Contre faire une croix de corail ... (p. 65) lespace d'une heure.; Ms. codex.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Decoration: Ink drawing of a study lamp (p. 51).; Binding: 17th-century French vellum over pasteboards, with gold-stamped title on spine.; Origin: Written in France in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Writing on left-hand page goes into the gutter, suggesting that the manuscript was bound after it was written.; French.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 113