University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 113
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS941
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 113
- Title:
- La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1599
- Language:
- French
- Material:
- paper illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 35 leaves : paper illustrations ; 173 x 115 mm bound to 182 x 117 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from spine. Title in Zacour-Hirsch is "Kunstbuechlein."
Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Contre faire une croix de corail ... (p. 65) lespace d'une heure.
Collation: Paper, ii (17th-century paper) + 35 + ii (17th-century paper); [i], 126, 28(-8); [ii], 1-65, [66-68]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Ink drawing of a study lamp (p. 51).
Binding: 17th-century French vellum over pasteboards, with gold-stamped title on spine.
Origin: Written in France in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Writing on left-hand page goes into the gutter, suggesting that the manuscript was bound after it was written.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
Acquired, 1960. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915805113503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3fs0z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
