Tractatus de formulis

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

130 leaves : paper ; 202 x 132 mm bound to 210 x 140 mm; Binding: 19th-century[?] quarter parchment.; French and Latin.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Possibly written in France, circa 1766 (p. iii).; Pagination: Paper, i (modern paper) + 130 + i (modern paper); 1-163, [164-260]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script in what appears to be a single hand, with the exception of four medical remedies on f. 120v, 121r-v. in a second hand. On f. 2r preceding the first page of the text is "Ad usum Steph. Bremond to philatro," and the date 1766.; Table of contents: Tractatus de Formulis is in three parts: De remediis internis, pp. 1-113 -- de remediis mediis, pp. 113-124. -- de remediis externis, pp. 124-163, -- index. Operations de chymie includes: de l'esprit de nitre -- de l'esprit de sel -- de l'esprit de vitriol -- de l'esprit de sel ammoniac -- de l'eau de vie en esprit de vin -- de l'eau temperée de Basile Valentin. -- distillation d'une plante aromatique. -- de la refine de jalap. -- maniere d'agir du laudanum. -- de l'elixir de proprieté de Paracelse. -- du sel alkali. -- du sublimé corrosif. -- du precipité blanc. -- du precipité rouge. -- de l'antimoine. -- de l'antimoine diaphoretique. -- du plomb ou Saturne. -- de l'argent ou lune. -- des cristaux de lune. -- de l'or ou soleil. [Text is incomplete.].; Title Tractatus de formulis from f. 3r. Title of the second treatise, Operations de chymie, is on f. 87r (p. 169). Note that this second title is incorrect in Zacour-Hirsch, Supplement A, which has "Observations de chymie."