Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Alchemical text.

Contents:

1. p.1-28: Advertissement ... à mon sprit del la medecine universelle.
2. p.29-127: Seven alchemical operations.
3. p.128-134: Recipies.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1). Title page which also has the following quotation: S'eleve qui voudra par force oú par adresse, /jusqu'au sommet glissant des grandeurs dela cour, /may jeveux sans quitter mon aimable séjour, /loin dumonde, et du bruit rechercher la sagesse. Horatius. Zacour-Hirsch suggest the author may be Georges de La Faye, 1699-1781.
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper) + i (contemporary paper; [ii], 1-2, 21-24 [bound in out of sequence], 3-20, 25-28, [ii], 29-127, [i], 128, [i], 129-134; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, with title page in a second hand. Title may not actually belong to the text which is largely alchemical.
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in France, September 1767 (p. 1).
Forms part of: Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism.

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. 240 (Ms. E.F. Smith 32).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 510

OCLC:

155964386