(Q5171)
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Trismosin, Salomon
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[between 1550 and 1599]
16. century
1550Gregorian
1599
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Extent: 41 leaves : parchment ; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm
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Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.
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Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
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Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....
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Ms. codex.
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Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.
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Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.
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Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century.
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No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.
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Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.
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Acquired, 1952.
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28 August 2023
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28 August 2023
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