Miscellany of medical, magical, and alchemical recipes
Liber lucis
- Circa 1520 – circa 1540
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Small JPG1200 x 1422px — 372 KBLarge JPG2880 x 3413px — 1.9 MBFull-sized JPG3396 x 4024px — 2.5 MBOriginal fileTIFF — 3396 x 4024px — 39.2 MBFound in its original plain binding of parchment, this work was most likely compiled by a practitioner of alchemy and medicine. Containing a handwritten copy of Liber lucis by John of Rupescissa (Johannes de Rupescissa) which contains a recipe for the philosopher's stone. Also includes alchemical notes and extracts from Turba philosophorium by Giovanni Agostino Panteo, Voarchadumia contra alchimiam attributed to Pseudo-Geber (Jābir ibn Hayyān), Summa perfectionis magisterii, the redaction of Secretum secretorum by Roger Bacon, and Rosarium philosophorum ascribed to Arnold of Villanova.
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Evidence of script and watermarks indicate that this manuscript was produced in Italy, quite possibly Urbino. Belonged to the Ubaldini familly of Urbino, Italy possibly as early as the late sixteenth century. |
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Bacon, Roger, and de Rupescissa Johannes. “Miscellany of Medical, Magical, and Alchemical Recipes,” circa 1520–1540. MS 14. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/02870x03b.
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