University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 131

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1038

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 131

Title:

Italian alchemical miscellany.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1550 and 1650]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 43 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 213 x 155 (194 x 134) mm bound to 222 x 150 mm

Note:

Script: Written in a cursive script.
The incipits of the first (Verum est sine mendatio..., f. 3r) and fourth (Recipe limatura lupi limati libram unam...) works are listed in Thorndike and Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin.
Origin: Written in Italy between the late 16th and the early 17th century.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 43; 1-2¹⁶ 3-6¹ 7⁸(-1); [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, irregular contemporary pagination/foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Ms. codex.
Binding: 17th-century Italian pasteboards. Paper frayed at the edges. Some evidence of worm and rodent damage. Lower outer edge of upper cover and many front folios badly damaged, possibly resulting in some slight loss of text.
Watermarks: Several different designs, including one which appears to be a cardinal's hat but is too faint to read.
Decoration: Several ink drawings of chemical apparatus (f. 9v); many chemical and alchemical symbols throughout.
Acquired, 1965.

Keyword:

treatises

Drawings (visual works)

recipes

Manuscripts, European

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Alchemy

Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311

History

Chemistry

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517553503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3p58z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania