Details

Subjects:

Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacy.
Distillation.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prescriptions.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French and Latin.

Summary:

Collection of a large number of alchemical and medicinal preparations, some with the names of famous men attached, e.g., Glauber (f. 2v, 78v), Paracelsus (f. 9v), Matthiolus (f. 17r), Fernel (f. 23v), Galen (f. 26v), Mynsicht (f. 30v), Hippocrates (f. 46v), Sydenham (f. 79r). Alphabetical index to preparations on f. 122-140. Many of the recipes stem from an "officina Mülhausiana" (f. 27v, today Mulhouse), see the initial "M" and the note "Mülh" throughout. Others are marked "G" or "Gen," probably for Genève.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Rudolf Hirsch notes on file in Library).
Dates in text: 1720 (f. 81r), 1719 (f. 81v), and "paratum mense Aprili 1722 Genev" (f. 82r). A printed dealer's description pasted inside upper cover gives date 1784, but the description does not fit the contents of this volume.
Foliation: Paper, 140; 1-53, 56-86, [87-142]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Text continues on f. 119-113 upside down and in reverse order; f. 87-112, 141-142 blank.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.
Decoration: Pen-and-ink illustrations of distallation apparatus "distillatio chymica de cornu cervi" (f. 19r), "distillato chymica de viperis" (f. 48v) and "rectificatio" (f. 50v).
Binding: Contemporary boards.
Origin: Written in Mulhouse or Geneva after 1722.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Pedro N. Arata, Buenos Aires (stamp, f. 86r); Mario Pedro Arata (signature and stamp, inside upper cover).
Purchased, 1974.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 528.

Contributor:

Arata, Mario Pedro, 1891-1946, former owner.
Arata, Pedro N. (Pedro Narciso), 1849-1922, former owner.

OCLC:

155965524

Access Restriction:

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