Holes in and damage to paper throughout Binding: Half leather; rebacked, title stamped in gold on spine: "LE TRESOR DES ALCHEMISTES"; marbled edges Layout: Two columns of forty-one lines; evidence of trimming; written area: 211 x 145 mm Script: Gothic--cursiva Decoration: One large diagram (fol. 163r) on the philosopher's stone; occasional marginal drawings (for example, alchemical apparatus, fols. 19v-20r); line-fillers and manicules in ink; rubrication and paragraph marks in red Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1986-1988, no. 1. Related resource: Wilson, W.J., "An Alchemical Manuscript by Arnaldus de Bruxella," Osiris II (1936): 220-405. Related resource: John C. Hirsh, Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University, 1970), cat. 10, pp. 17-24. Provenance: W. E. Whitman in pencil on front flyleaf and in ink on second title page (nineteenth century); acquired by Lehigh University in 1881
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