[Watercolour alchemical drawings, with text in Lati…]

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  • Reference
      GB 247 MS Ferguson 248
  • Dates of Creation
      16--
  • Language of Material
      Latin
  • Physical Description
      Sm. 4to. ii + 32 folios. 20.5x16.3 cm. Wrappers

Scope and Content

Watercolour alchemical drawings, with text in Latin. XVIIth or early XVIIIth centuries.
f iir [In different hand from rest of MS.]: 'M: Joannes Corbiniany Es Keso Parochy in Abensperg 1725.'
f iiv [Coloured drawing of cross with four symbolic figures; dragon, angel, bird and wolf.]
f1r [Coloured drawing of various alchemical vessels.]
1. f1v-6 [Sequence of 14 small coloured drawings from the 'Petrus Bonus' series, which shows death and resurrection of the king of the metals. With Latin text.]
2. f6r-18r [Section with 7 + 4 chapters in German. A few small coloured drawings of apparatus etc. in margins.]
3. f18v Precatio Artificis ad Dei omnipotentis Maiestatem.
4. f19r Tabula Smaragdi.
5. f19r Ex quibus lapis Philosophorum conficitur.
6. f19v Incipit Tabula Scientia Maioris.
7. f20v-31 [11 fine watercolour drawings, on folios 20r, 22, 23r, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, from the 'Praetiosissimum Donum Dei' series, with text in Latin.]
8. f31v 'De opere Philosophiae Describit Marcellus Palingenius'.
9. f32 [Verse in German.]

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