Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

French.

Contents:

1. p.1-65: Chapitre premier, de l'esprit ou teinture du mercure. Plusieurs pourons trouver estrange.
2. p.65-105: Plusieurs particulier[s] tant au blanc qu'au rouges [sic] tirez du mesme autheurs [sic].
3. p.105-109: Révélations de la parole caché par la sagesse des anciens ou la généalogie de la mère du mercure des philosophes.
4. p.110-233: Various recipes, quotations from the Bible, with two pages in cypher.
5. p.234-239: Table des Matieres.
6. p.240-241: Two alchemical entries.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Pagination: Paper, i (later paper) + 122 + i (later paper) leaves; [iv], 1-217, [218-242]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary foliation in ink, 10-132, upper right recto. References in this record are to contemporary pagination.
Script: Written various cursive scripts by four or more different hands.
Binding: 19th-century[?] quarter leather. Worm damage upper corner near binding, (p. 199).
Entry on last folio, "Quartier D[or F]auril."
Origin: Written in France, 1709 (p. 196).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bottega d'Erasmo (Torino), 1960.

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. 242 (Ms. E.F. Smith 37).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 514

OCLC:

155964407