Details

Subjects:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Chemistry -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacology.
Chemistry.
History.

Form/Genre:

Notebooks.
Recipes.
Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French, with some Italian, Spanish and Latin.

Summary:

Contains remedies, experiments and extracts on "poudre universelle" (f. 12v); "misterio filosofico della segreta preparatione della pietra, e nella materia del sale" (f. 35v); "nitro detonato e conservato" (f. 64v); etc. Also includes more extensive sections toward the end: "Opus Photum a Friderico Gualdi descriptum" (f. 81r-92r); "La Manière de faire le sel et soulphre d'antimoine" (f. 93r-95r); "Metodo occultissima all'universal medicina" (f. 107r-109v); etc. Also includes a second set of notes beginning from the opposite end of the manuscript, among them a "Sonetto di Federigo Gualdi." This section begins imperfectly, since there is a stub after f. 133 and some text appears to be lost. Folios 66v-94v and 105r-106v are blank. There are stubs after f. 114, 129 and 133.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Collation: Paper, 133; 1¹⁸, 2-5²⁰, 6²⁰(-3), 7²⁰(-2); [1-133]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. There are traces of earlier foliation in different sections, indicating that this manuscript was originally part of one or more larger codices
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Decoration: Several small diagrams (f. 29v, 58v, 95v).
Binding: 18th-century Italian limp vellum with decorative sewing on spine. Vellum cover cracked and split. First quire slightly loose; last quire very loose.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century[?]. Earliest date found is 1739 (f. 117r); latest date found is 1771 (f. 129r).

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1965.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 102 (Ms. E. F. Smith 43).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 126

Contributor:

Gualdi, Federico, -1724?

Contains:

Poudre universelle.
Misterio filosofico della segreta preparatione della pietra, e nella materia del sale.
Nitro detonato e conservato.
Opus Photum a Friderico Gualdi descriptum.
Manière de faire le sel et soulphre d'antimoine.
Metodo occultissima all'universal medicina.
Sonetto di Federigo Gualdi.

OCLC:

155962614