Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Contents:

1. f.2r-21r: Traité du lapis des philosophes
2. f.22r-43r: Commentaire sur le lapis des philosophes...par le S[ieu]r [Gaston] Duclos
3. f.46r-71v: Oeuvre du cyon verd...par Jacques le Tesson
4. f.72r-111r: Deuxième dialogue sur la conduite des philosophes ou le grand cheriacque des philosophes par Jacques le Tesson, [and] Sommaire de la précédente conduite en forme de pratique
5. f.111v-141r: [Troisièm]e traité de Tesson.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Titles from headings.
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 141 + iii (contemporary paper); [1-141]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary pagination in ink, 211-403, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by two hands, different paper begins on f. 46, with pencilled notes in another hand, and a description of the first work, attributed to Philippe de Rouillhac, written in a later hand on f. 1.
Decoration: Illustration of chemical apparatus (f. 30v).
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in France before 1778 (date on bookplate).

Penn Provenance:

Printed bookplate, Derieu, with ms. date 1778 (f. 1v).
Acquired, 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (1965). Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), pp. 91-115, p. 104 (Ms. E. F. Smith 52).

Publications about:

Part 1 probably identical with text published in v. IV of J. M. Richebourg, Bibliotheque des philosphes chimiques, Paris, 1740, "Le traité suivant...a été imprimé en Latin , sans le commentaire du Sr Duclos, dans un petit livre...Philippi Aureoli Theophrasti Paracelsi...115 curationes experimentaque...adjuncts est denuo Practica operis magni Philippi a Rouillasco Pedemontano...1582" (f. 1r).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 516.

Contributor:

Rouillhac, Philippe de.
Duclos, Gaston.
Le Tesson, Jacques.

Contains:

Commentaire sur le lapis des philosophes du S[ieu]r Philippe.
Oeuvre du lyon verd en dialogue ou la grande et tres excellente oeuvre des sages.

OCLC:

155964425

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