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Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia
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Cycurius, Johannes, Theatinus
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Puccius, Petrus Joseph
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Loredan, Leonardo, 1436-1521
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Thomas, Alan G
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Tenschert, Heribert
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Ritman, Joost R
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between 1450-1500].
15. century
1498Gregorian
1498Gregorian
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Extent: 182] leaves, three parts ; ill. ; 164 x 115 mm.
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ill.
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Ms. document.
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Title from Les Enluminures, Primer [no.] 7, Alchemy p. 20.
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Script: written in a small, precise humanistic bookhand with cursive features.
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Pagination: 182 leaves.
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Decoration: Red rubrics.
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Layout: Thirty long lines.
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Origin: Copied in Venice in 1498, and completed on October 8; signed and dated on f. 174 by scribe Johannes Cycurius Theatinus who says he copied the manuscript in the house of Leonardo Loredano (1436/8-1521), Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death. This manuscript includes the complete text and two versions of the of "tertia distinctio" (probably only one of three manuscript with two...
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Belonged to Petrus Joseph Puccius, Urbinas probably in the eighteenth or nineteenth century; inscribed front flyleaf, f. iii.
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Former shelfmark: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), MS 100.
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Shelfmark: Philadelphia, PA, Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, MS 7.
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Belonged to Joost R. Ritman (b. 1941), the Dutch businessman and distinguished collector of art and books, who acquired it from Tenschert in 1992; Bibliotheca Philosophia Hermetica MS 100 (bookplate front flyleaf f. i). Purchased from Les Enluminures Ltd., 9 September 2013, Primer 2 Alchemy, [item] no. 7, (TM695) to Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, CHF (now...
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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