Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German and Latin.

Summary:

Primarily a collection of preparations, arranged in four chapters with an appendix and index.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. v).
Pagination: Paper, 74; [ix], 1-118, [xxv]; contemporary pagination in ink, lower inner corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary boards.
Origin: Written in Austria or southern Germany, circa 1750.

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. 237 (Ms. E.F. Smith 21).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 506

OCLC:

155964370