Details

Subjects:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.
Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

An extract from Abregé de la chimie. Following the date of 1636 is "a Paris chés Pierre Blaise rue S. Jaques prés St. Yves." First section consists of 11 chapters (p. 1-13) on alchemy and the elements. Section beginning on p. 14 has heading "Dequelle partie est Composée cette medicine generale du mondes." Final section is on minerals and precious stones.

Contents:

1. p.1: Chapitre Premier, Nos premiers parents ...
2. p.1: Chapitre 2, Que l'alchymie ...
3. p.2-3: Chapitre 3, Des principes de l'alchimie ...
4. p.3-5: Chapitre 4, Du feu naturel ...
5. p.5-6: Chapitre 5, De l'humide radical ...
6. p.6-7: Chapitre 6, Central principe radical de toutes choses ...
7. p.8: Chapitre 7, Des elements naturels ...
8. p.9: Chapitre 8, Du ciel premier element naturel ...
9. p.10-11: Chapitre 9, De l'air second element ...
10 p.11-12: Chapitre 10, De l'eau troisieme element ...
11. p.12-13: Chapitre 11, De la terre 4 element.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.
Title from title page (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, 22 leaves; [ii], 1-33, [34-42]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Unbound, pages folded and sewn.
Origin: Written in France, copied from a printed edition of 1636 (p. 1).

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 7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 500

OCLC:

155964344