[Iatro-chemical and alchemical compendium]

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

238 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 313 x 212 (227 x 140) mm bound to 320 mm + 4 notes; Binding: 17th-century French[?] quarter vellum (blue paper over cardboard, with vellum spine; the vellum is from a slightly earlier manuscript). Some pages stained and split at the edges. First and last leaves slightly torn at the edges.; Collation: i (modern paper) + 237 + i (modern paper); 1-4⁸ 5⁶ 6-12⁸ 13⁶ 14-17⁸ 18⁶ 19-29⁸ 30⁸(+1) 31²(2 singletons); 1-470, 531-532, [547]-548; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. The last 2 leaves seem to have been added from some other manuscript. Catchwords in lower right corner, last verso of each gathering.; Decoration: Ink diagrams and drawings of distillation vessels, etc., throughout.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; French, with a few sections in Latin.; Heading and incipit of first section (p. 1): Observations tres belles et diverses experiences. Pour l'eau de vie. Recipe une draginee d'or ...; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in France in the first half of the 17th century[?].; Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, with a second hand beginning on p. 531 and continuing to the end.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Watermark: Contains the initials GB; also countermark.