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estratti di un libro di C. P., il mese di Novembre, l'anno 1614

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368 leaves : paper ; 106-290 x 70-205 mm bound to 320 x 235 mm; Binding: Contemporary (early 17th-century) heavy cartonato; ink title on spine abraded and illegible; pastedown and flyleaf inside each cover formed from a printed leaf from the geographical index of Lodovico Antonio Muratori's Rerum italicarum scriptores, published in Milan in multiple volumes from 1723 to 1751.; Decoration: Diagrams of laboratory apparatus in ink (f. 139r, 279r); occasional manicules (for example, f. 50r, 59v); late 18th or early 19th-century engraving by François-Louis Couché based on a painting by David Teniers of an alchemist in his laboratory, inside upper cover.; Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century paper) + 368 + i (18th-century paper); earlier pagination in pencil only on pages with writing, upper outer corners; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, [1-368]. References in this record are to foliation.; Italian, with occasional passages in Latin.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Collected in Florence in 1614 (title page, f. 3r); component items written in various Italian cities with dates of 1608 (f. 176v); 1610 (f. 180v), 1612 (Giambattista della Porta recipe, f. 102r), 1613 (f. 2r, 22r, 218r, 222v, 226v, 253r, 355r), and 1614 (f. 38r, 69r, 134r).; Script: Written in cursive script, by the hand of Antonio de' Medici and many others.; Title from title page (f. 3r).