Alchemical compendium. (DS635) (Q3310)

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Alchemical compendium. (DS635)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9957839383503681, LJS 382)

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    Alchemical compendium.
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    Alchemy--Early works to 1800
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    Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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    Early works to 1800
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    Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)
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    Extent: 94 leaves : parchment and paper ; 123 x 84 mm bound to 132 x 95 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Origin: Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).
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    Ms. codex.
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    Foliation: Parchment and paper, ii (modern paper) + 94 + ii (modern paper); 1-2¹⁴ 3²⁸ 4¹² 5²⁰ 6⁶; [1], 2-94; early foliation in ink, mostly lower right recto but occasionally lower left recto, lower center recto, or mid-right margin recto; occasional modern foliation in pencil corresponds to early foliation. Gatherings 1-2 in parchment; gathering 3 in paper except for outermost bifolium and...
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    Binding: Modern parchment.
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    Script: Written in semi-Gothic script, in the hand of Georg Hayniger (f. 6v, 9r, 11r).
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    Decoration: 6 drawings of laboratory apparatus, including alembics and furnaces (f. 16v, 17v, 18v, 20r, 25r, 25v-26r); marginal drawings of beakers and alembics (f. 55v, 57v, 62v); ontological diagram of processes and elements titled Arbor philosophiae, in red and black ink (f. 89r); frequent manicules of different styles, some in red ink or touched in red; section titles and highlights in...
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    Layout: Casual vertical bounding lines in ink on most pages.
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    Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 2000.
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    Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
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    Formerly owned by P. Fraenkel (ex libris stamp, first flyleaf; collation note in pencil, dated April 1999, inside lower cover); possibly Pierre Fraenkel of the Reformation Research Institute (Geneva, Switzerland).
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    Formerly owned by Johann David Baier, preacher at the Neuenspital zum Heiligen Geist (Church of the Holy Spirit, Nuremberg; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover); professor of theology at Jena in the early 1700s and in Altdorf (near Nuremberg) in the 1730s and 1740s.
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    Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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    27 August 2023
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    27 August 2023
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