Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English.

Summary:

Translation of Traittez de l'harmonie et constitution généralle du vray sel, secret des philosophes, et de l'esprit universelle du monde from the first French edition, "Printed in Paris by Jeremias Perier & Abdias Brisard ... Anno MDCXXI." Prefaced with an address "To the most high most mightie & most vertuous Prince Monseigneour ... Duke of Lorraine," signed de Nuisement. The work is divided into three books, the first book consists of Chapters 1-9 (p. 1-28), the second book consists of Chapters 1-4 (p. 29-125), and the third book is the conclusion, (p. 126-141).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. v); English title of the 1657 and 1658 printed editions translated by Robert Turner, as described in Ferguson's Bibliotheca chemica, II, p.148, is quite different.
Pagination: Paper, 80 leaves; [xvi], 1-141, [142-144]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary sheepskin. Binding broken along spine, a few wormholes.
Origin: Written in England in the second half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 234 (Ms. E. F. Smith 11).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 501.

Contributor:

Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, 1604-1675, dedicatee.

OCLC:

155964347

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