Révélation et déclaration / de frere Bazile Valentin.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Basilius Valentinus.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Chemistry--History.

Chemistry.

History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

recipes

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

French.

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.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

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).

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. 242 (Ms. E.F. Smith 37).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 514

OCLC:

155964407