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This manuscript on paper is composed of selections from alchemical works by the fifteenth-century alchemist Christophorus Parisiensis, in multiple hands. It begins with the Opus vegetabile et minerale (fols. 1r-). The manuscript is also bound together with pages from three different printed books, one of which whose title page is present (Pronostico calculato : l'anno MDCIII et dura in perpetuo ... Stampata in Ferrar, Bologna, Ancona, Perugia, & in Fiorenza ..., l'anno 1603. [8] p.) Some portions of the manuscript include recipes. An author inscription on unnumbered folio 220r names a certain Caseolus as the writer of the manuscript and states that he began his talk on 10 March 1505. The date 1479 is mentioned on fol. 166v, but this is a reference to the original date of the text, not the date of copying.
Support: Paper; Extent: i+311+i; 205 x 148 bound to 210 x 149 mm; Foliation: Various systems of pagination and foliation throughout; Collation: 1-6 (8), 7-8 (20), 9 (26), 10-11 (20), 12 (16), 13 (8), 14 (15, +1), 15 (4), 16 (9, +8), 17 (8, +4 +5), 18 (7, +5 +6 +7), 19 (23, +2), 20 (12), 21 (25, +1 -23 -24 -25), 22 (3, +3), 23 (4), 24 (5, +4), 25 (12, +7 +9); Signatures: Signatures a-m visible in center of lower margins on many rectos; Catchwords: Original catchwords in lower right corner of many versos
Single-column throughout, written area of varying size
Early modern cursive
Five stubs between fol. 30 and 31 in the last section
The first text, on vegetables and minerals, is that found in Florence, BNCF, ms. Magl. 16, 043, fols. 146a-278a
Author inscription on unnumbered fol. 220r reads: "IN NOMINE DNI AMEN, AMEN ANNO DNI, MILLESIMO QUINQUA-GESIMO QUINTO DIE, OVERO DECEM MARTI, EGO CASEOLUS CEPI, AD SCRIBERE LIBRUM"
Two smaller bifolios of a printed text, not accounted for in collation model, bound in as a compound quire between fols. [12] and 13 towards the end of the manuscript
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
16th century to mid-17th century
Original calf over pasteboard; "Philosophia Chimica" written on spine
Italian; Latin
Italy
16th century to mid-17th century
Italian; Latin
This manuscript on paper is composed of selections from alchemical works by the fifteenth-century alchemist Christophorus Parisiensis, in multiple hands. It begins with the Opus vegetabile et minerale (fols. 1r-). The manuscript is also bound together with pages from three different printed books, one of which whose title page is present (Pronostico calculato : l'anno MDCIII et dura in perpetuo ... Stampata in Ferrar, Bologna, Ancona, Perugia, & in Fiorenza ..., l'anno 1603. [8] p.) Some portions of the manuscript include recipes. An author inscription on unnumbered folio 220r names a certain Caseolus as the writer of the manuscript and states that he began his talk on 10 March 1505. The date 1479 is mentioned on fol. 166v, but this is a reference to the original date of the text, not the date of copying.
Five stubs between fol. 30 and 31 in the last section
The first text, on vegetables and minerals, is that found in Florence, BNCF, ms. Magl. 16, 043, fols. 146a-278a
Author inscription on unnumbered fol. 220r reads: "IN NOMINE DNI AMEN, AMEN ANNO DNI, MILLESIMO QUINQUA-GESIMO QUINTO DIE, OVERO DECEM MARTI, EGO CASEOLUS CEPI, AD SCRIBERE LIBRUM"
Two smaller bifolios of a printed text, not accounted for in collation model, bound in as a compound quire between fols. [12] and 13 towards the end of the manuscript
Early modern cursive
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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