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Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz.

Author/Creator:
Trismosin, Salomon.
Publication:
[Germany], [between 1550 and 1599]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
41 leaves : parchment ; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm
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Subjects:
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
German.
Summary:
Alchemical treatise about the philosophers' stone divided into seven "tracts."
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....
Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.
Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.
Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.
Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century.
No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.
Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
Penn Provenance:
Acquired, 1952.
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. 231 (Ms. E. F. Smith 1).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 108
OCLC:
155962421