Tractatus de formulis

Alternate Title:

Operations de chymie

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1766

Description:

First treatise in Latin consists of formulas for medical remedies including alteratives, purgatives, sudorifics, vermifuges, diuretics, emmenagogues, refrigerants, febrifuges, stomachics, emetics, emollients, astringents, etc. with an index to the formulas. Second treatise in French consists of alchemical operations and formulations, some of which also have medical applications.

Language:

French; Latin

Provenance:

Acquired, 1968.

Subject:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Chemistry -- History; Chemistry; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); recipes; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

130 leaves : paper; 202 x 132 mm bound to 210 x 140 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: Tractatus de Formulis is in three parts: De remediis internis, pp. 1-113 -- de remediis mediis, pp. 113-124. -- de remediis externis, pp. 124-163, -- index. Operations de chymie includes: de l'esprit de nitre -- de l'esprit de sel -- de l'esprit de vitriol -- de l'esprit de sel ammoniac -- de l'eau de vie en esprit de vin -- de l'eau temperée de Basile Valentin. -- distillation d'une plante aromatique. -- de la refine de jalap. -- maniere d'agir du laudanum. -- de l'elixir de proprieté de Paracelse. -- du sel alkali. -- du sublimé corrosif. -- du precipité blanc. -- du precipité rouge. -- de l'antimoine. -- de l'antimoine diaphoretique. -- du plomb ou Saturne. -- de l'argent ou lune. -- des cristaux de lune. -- de l'or ou soleil. [Text is incomplete.].; Title Tractatus de formulis from f. 3r. Title of the second treatise, Operations de chymie, is on f. 87r (p. 169). Note that this second title is incorrect in Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, which has "Observations de chymie."; Pagination: Paper, i (modern paper) + 130 + i (modern paper); 1-163, [164-260]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script in what appears to be a single hand, with the exception of four medical remedies on f. 120v, 121r-v. in a second hand. On f. 2r preceding the first page of the text is "Ad usum Steph. Bremond to philatro," and the date 1766.; Binding: 19th-century[?] quarter parchment.; Origin: Possibly written in France, circa 1766 (p. iii).; French and Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 518