Révélation et déclaration

Name:

Basilius Valentinus

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Language:

French

Provenance:

Sold by Bottega d'Erasmo (Torino), 1960.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

122 leaves : paper; 219 x 180 (202 x 160) mm bound to 227 x 190 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. p.1-65: Chapitre premier, de l'esprit ou teinture du mercure. Plusieurs pourons trouver estrange. -- 2. p.65-105: Plusieurs particulier[s] tant au blanc qu'au rouges [sic] tirez du mesme autheurs [sic]. -- 3. p.105-109: Révélations de la parole caché par la sagesse des anciens ou la généalogie de la mère du mercure des philosophes. -- 4. p.110-233: Various recipes, quotations from the Bible, with two pages in cypher. -- 5. p.234-239: Table des Matieres. -- 6. p.240-241: Two alchemical entries.; Pagination: Paper, i (later paper) + 122 + i (later paper) leaves; [iv], 1-217, [218-242]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary foliation in ink, 10-132, upper right recto. References in this record are to contemporary pagination.; Script: Written various cursive scripts by four or more different hands.; Binding: 19th-century[?] quarter leather. Worm damage upper corner near binding, (p. 199).; Entry on last folio, "Quartier D[or F]auril."; Origin: Written in France, 1709 (p. 196).; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 514