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Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35w0h
Title: Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz
Name: Trismosin, Salomon
Date: 1550
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts, German, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Alchemical treatise about the philosophers' stone divided into seven "tracts."
Extent: 41 leaves : parchment ; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm
Language: German
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen...., Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende., Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record., Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand., Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties., Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century., No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages., Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached., Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection., German.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35w0h, Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/97/
Subject: Alchemy -- Early works to 1800, Alchemy
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 108
Provenance: Acquired, 1952.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9915804503503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p35w0h/manifest

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DS ID:

DS907

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 108

Title:

Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz

Splendor solis

Author:

Trismosin, Salomon

Salomon Trismosin Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

TGN

Date:

between 1550 and 1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

German

WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 41 leaves : parchment ; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....
Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.
Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-94, 104(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.
Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.
Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century.
No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.
Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
Acquired, 1952.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Alchemy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915804503503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p35w0h/manifest

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