Details

Other Title:

Contre faire une croix de corail.
Kunstbuechlein.

Subjects:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.
Chemistry -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Colors -- Early works to 1800.
Dyes and dyeing -- Early works to 1800.
Perfumes -- Early works to 1800.
Perfumes.
Dyes and dyeing.
Colors.
Chemistry.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Recipes.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Collection of recipes and instructions for making colors, perfumes, soap, dyes, engraving, illuminating, making marble paper, making mirrors, preserving wine, etc. Contains over 200 different recipes and instructions.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine. Title in Zacour-Hirsch is "Kunstbuechlein."
Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Contre faire une croix de corail ... (p. 65) lespace d'une heure.
Collation: Paper, ii (17th-century paper) + 35 + ii (17th-century paper); [i], 1²⁶, 2⁸(-8); [ii], 1-65, [66-68]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Ink drawing of a study lamp (p. 51).
Binding: 17th-century French vellum over pasteboards, with gold-stamped title on spine.
Origin: Written in France in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Writing on left-hand page goes into the gutter, suggesting that the manuscript was bound after it was written.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1960.

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. 233 (Ms. E. F. Smith 6).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 113

OCLC:

155962548