Details

Other Title:

Hermes Trismegistes

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Philosophical and alchemical text in 72 chapters, headed with Roman numerals.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: Tutte le forme motrici, e mosse, ò generate, ò incorrotte honorano Iddio, eterno Creatore ... (f. 2r).
"L'original di questo si trova nella grandissima libraria dell' Ser. Imperator Federico Terzo."
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 34 + iii (modern paper); 1-34; later foliation in ink, bottom center recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Drawings of chemical apparatus (f. 18r, f. 21r).
Binding: 19th[?]-century quarter leather.
Origin: Written in Italy[?] in the 18th century.

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. 236 (Ms. E.F. Smith 17).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 504

OCLC:

155964359