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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1038

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 131

Title:

Italian alchemical miscellany

Alchemical texts

Place:

Italy

TGN

Date:

between 1550 and 1650

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Latin, with some Italian

Latin

WIKIDATA

Italian

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
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.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Several ink drawings of chemical apparatus (f. 9v); many chemical and alchemical symbols throughout.
Watermarks: Several different designs, including one which appears to be a cardinal's hat but is too faint to read.
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.
Origin: Written in Italy between the late 16th and the early 17th century.
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.
Acquired, 1965.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European

treatises

drawings (visual works)

recipes

Alchemy

Early works

Chemistry

History