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Research collection, 1929-1988.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 477
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Woodruff, Howard C.
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- De mirabilibus mundi--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- De mirabilibus mundi.
- Alchemy.
- Chemistry--History.
- Chemistry.
- History.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
- Genre:
- Facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts.
- Facsimiles.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Howard C. Woodruff, 1988.
- Physical Description:
- 16 folders
- Other Title:
- Liber vaccae.
- Place of Publication:
- 1929-1988.
- Language Note:
- Notes in English and Latin; photostats in Latin and Arabic.
- Summary:
- Comprises a few items of correspondence, research notes, and photostats of a number of manuscripts in Latin and Arabic. These are related to Woodruff's research on and translation of the treatise De Mirabilibus Mundi from the book Secretis Mulierum (Amsterdam, 1669). Also includes Woodruff's translation of Liber Vaccae. Includes 1 letter to Woodruff from Lynn Thorndike, 2 Feb. 1931 and 1 letter to Woodruff from Fritz A. Paneth, 13 July 1936. Includes offprints of an article by Fritz Paneth on Albertus Magnus' De Mineralibus, and an article by Karl Sudhoff on "Codex Fritz Paneth."
- Notes:
- Collection organized and described by Woodruff, Folder 1.
- Forms part of Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
- OCLC:
- 189862404
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