Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Recipes.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German and Rhaeto-Roman.

Summary:

A collection of alchemical preparations, written in black ink with red ink used for headings and for some symbols, margins ruled in red ink. For the title as well as for the name of substances the writer used secret ciphers. Also includes a section of medical recipes in the Ladin language.

Contents:

1. f.2r-59r: Alchemical preparations.
2. f.60r-63r: Explicatio verborum.
3. f.63v-69v: Signa Chÿmicorum (gives an alphabetical listing of the elements with their symbols).
4. f.70r-74v: Unguentum contra venicas manuum.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 78 + i (contemporary paper); [1-78]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be one hand, including appendices.
Decoration: Pen and ink drawings of alchemical apparatus (f. 7v, f. 15v, f. 21r, f. 24v, f. 56v), with smaller drawings at other locations in the text.
Binding: Contemporary sheepskin.
Origin: Written in Switzerland in 1737 (f. 1r).

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. 237-238, title page is illustrated on p. 238 (Ms. E.F. Smith 24).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 508

OCLC:

155964374