[Alchemical miscellany]

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Archidoxa.

Paracelsus.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Chemistry--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

excerpts

recipes

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jeffrey D. Mancevice (Worcester, Massachusetts), 2014.

Physical Description:

59 leaves : paper ; 155 x 98 mm bound to 160 x 110 mm

Place of Publication:

[Naples?], [1700-1725?]

Language Note:

Latin, with one recipe in German (f. 34v).

Summary:

Collection of articles, excerpts, and recipes, with references to Paracelsus and the Archidoxa, mercury, sulfur, coagulation, and distillation. Titles include Regulae ex summa (f. 2r), Ramus aureus (f. 7r), and Tinctura physicorum (f. 45r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, i + 59 + i; [i-ii, 1-57]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; erased foliation in pencil in upper right recto suggests that this manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript and perhaps bound in a different order.

Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Binding: 18th-century half calf; gilt spine with leather pasted over one label and another label damaged; endpapers of colored pattern prints on paste paper.

Origin: Possibly written in Naples (f. 55v) in the early 18th century (Mancevice).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1715.

OCLC:

915085978