University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 108

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS907

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 108

Title:

Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz.

Author:

Trismosin, Salomon

Salomon Trismosin WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1550 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
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....
Ms. codex.
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.
Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.
Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.
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.
Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.
Acquired, 1952.

Keyword:

treatises

Manuscripts, German

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Alchemy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804503503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p35w0h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania