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

France TGN

Date:

[between 1500 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 35 leaves : paper illustrations ; 173 x 115 mm bound to 182 x 117 mm

Note:

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.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
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.
Ms. codex.
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.
Acquired, 1960.

Keyword:

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, French

recipes

codices (bound manuscripts)

Colors

Early works

Chemistry

Alchemy

Perfumes

History

Dyes and dyeing

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915805113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3fs0z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania