Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

German, with some Latin headings.

Summary:

Alchemical collection. Consists mostly of recipes for alchemical preparations and prescriptions. Headings include: quinta essentia, opus lapides philosofici per Viam auris pottabillis, Mars in luna meliorem natturalis, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 16; [1-16]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary boards constructed from a German map. Cover has a pen and ink drawing of a double eagle surrounding a heart inscribed with alchemical symbols and "No. 8" (pasted onto cover).
Origin: Written in Germany in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate of bookseller Krüger & Co. (Leipzig) pasted onto inside upper cover.
Acquired, 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia, 1965). Supplement A (5), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 2, p. 103 (Ms. E.F. Smith 49).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 519

OCLC:

155964442