Compendium der gantzen hermetischen Philosophie ... / Herrn Johann Christoph von Hartmann, Philosophia et Medicina Doctoris.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Von Hartmann, Johann Christoph.

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Chemistry--History.

Chemistry.

History.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

recipes

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (46, 47 leaves) : paper ; 190 x 119 (174 x 84) mm bound to 191 x 120 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

German and Latin.

Summary:

Alchemical text, with first volume consisting of Compendium der gantzen hermetischen Wissenschaft and Medicamenta particularia ex Fonte universali ad Corpus humanum along with preparations and experiments and the second volume consisting entirely of preparations.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (v.1, p. i).

Foliation: V.1: Paper, 46; [iv], 1-85, [iii]; V.2: Paper, 47; [iv], 1-79, [xi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: Margins on right recto and left verso in green ink. Underlined headings in light brown or green ink.

Watermarks: HONIG.

Binding: Contemporary paper covers. Fragile. Damage from green ink, a few pages tearing along inked lines.

Origin: Written in Germany in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 240 (Ms. E.F. Smith 33).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 511

OCLC:

155964390