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Other Title:

Operationes Divini Raymondi Lulli.
Aqua vitae ornatur pluribus virtutibus, et laudibus.
De medendis omnibus morbis.
Cinis parvarum ranarum combustarum.

Subjects:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.
Aquavit.
Chemical apparatus.
Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Distillation -- Early works to 1800.
Distillation apparatus.
Liquors.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Tobacco.
Distillation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Drawings (visual works)
Recipes.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with some sections (p. 609-676) in Italian and occasional words in Greek.

Summary:

Collection of short works on chemistry, distillation, treatments and remedies for diseases, etc. Begins with Operationes divini Raymundi Lulli (p. 1-16). Continues with De medendis omnibus morbis (p. 17-676); among the sections are De tabaco, De chymia, Natura tinctarum, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1).
First section, incipit and explicit: (heading and incipit, p. 1) Operationes Divini Raymundi Lulli. De Aquavite virtutibus. Aqua vitae ornatur pluribus virtutibus, et laudibus ... (p. 16) alias curari non possunt. Finis artis operativae Divini Raymundi Lulli. Sequuntur remediae omnium morborum diversorum clarissimorum virorum, omnium generum in ordine positorum cum notis in margine eorum a me expertorum.
Second (main) section, incipit and explicit: (heading and incipit, p. 17) De medendis omnibus morbis diversorum authorum praestantissimorum cum simplicibus remediis. De casu capillorum cap. i. Cinis parvarum ranarum combustarum ... (p. 676) Ungent certi e solvere magistial.
Collation: iii + 341 leaves; 1-9⁸, 10⁸(+1), 11-30⁸, 31¹⁰, 32-37⁸, 38¹⁰, 39-41⁸; 1-609, [ii], 610-676, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center. Catchwords, lower right verso.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Decoration: Ink drawings and diagrams throughout, showing chemical apparatus, tobacco pipes, etc.
Watermarks: At least two different types of watermarks.
Binding: 19th-20th century Italian calf over pasteboards. Cover is in poor condition. Spine and lower board completely detached; upper board loose. Edges of cover worn, crumbling and deteriorated. Binding becoming weak between some quires. Some pages stained, possibly due to oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Italy in 1676 (p. 1).
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1962.

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 39).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 122.

Contributor:

Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.

Related Work:

Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316. De aquavite virtutibus.

OCLC:

155962606

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