Ms. document. Title from Les Enluminures, Primer [no.] 7, Alchemy p. 20. Script: written in a small, precise humanistic bookhand with cursive features. Pagination: 182 leaves. Decoration: Red rubrics. Layout: Thirty long lines. Origin: Copied in Venice in 1498, and completed on October 8; signed and dated on f. 174 by scribe Johannes Cycurius Theatinus who says he copied the manuscript in the house of Leonardo Loredano (1436/8-1521), Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death. This manuscript includes the complete text and two versions of the of "tertia distinctio" (probably only one of three manuscript with two... Belonged to Petrus Joseph Puccius, Urbinas probably in the eighteenth or nineteenth century; inscribed front flyleaf, f. iii. Former shelfmark: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), MS 100. Shelfmark: Philadelphia, PA, Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, MS 7. Belonged to Joost R. Ritman (b. 1941), the Dutch businessman and distinguished collector of art and books, who acquired it from Tenschert in 1992; Bibliotheca Philosophia Hermetica MS 100 (bookplate front flyleaf f. i). Purchased from Les Enluminures Ltd., 9 September 2013, Primer 2 Alchemy, [item] no. 7, (TM695) to Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, CHF (now...
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