Opera del sapientissimo Ermete Trismegisto della generatione del lapide con l'espositione di Moise, Primate Hebreo, tradotta dal latino

Alternate Title:

Hermes Trismegistes

Name:

Hermes, Trismegistus

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Philosophical and alchemical text in 72 chapters, headed with Roman numerals.

Language:

Italian

Subject:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy; Chemistry -- History; Chemistry; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

34 leaves : paper, illustrations; 292 x 215 (227 x 158) mm bound to 298 x 228 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Incipit: Tutte le forme motrici, e mosse, ò generate, ò incorrotte honorano Iddio, eterno Creatore ... (f. 2r).; "L'original di questo si trova nella grandissima libraria dell' Ser. Imperator Federico Terzo."; Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 34 + iii (modern paper); 1-34; later foliation in ink, bottom center recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Decoration: Drawings of chemical apparatus (f. 18r, f. 21r).; Binding: 19th[?]-century quarter leather.; Origin: Written in Italy[?] in the 18th century.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 504