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Libra Esoterica

[La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie]

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  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Language: French
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Collection of recipes and instructions for making colors, perfumes, soap, dyes, engraving, illuminating, making marble paper, making mirrors, preserving wine, etc. Contains over 200 different recipes and instructions.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Alchemy”· in subject

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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

35 leaves : paper illustrations ; 173 x 115 mm bound to 182 x 117 mm; Binding: 17th-century French vellum over pasteboards, with gold-stamped title on spine.; 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. Link to collation model at end of record.; Decoration: Ink drawing of a study lamp (p. 51).; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; French.; Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Contre faire une croix de corail ... (p. 65) lespace d'une heure.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in France in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Title from spine. Title in Zacour-Hirsch is "Kunstbuechlein."; Writing on left-hand page goes into the gutter, suggesting that the manuscript was bound after it was written.

1500—French—Public download

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  • ark:/81431/p3fs0z

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Cataloging notes

  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9915805113503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 113
  • Provenance: Acquired, 1960.
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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