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Dell'elixir vitæ

Author further identified on preliminary page 7 as Fra Donato d'Eremita di Rocca d'Evandro dell'Ordine di San Domenico · Duveen, D.L. Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica · Ferchl, F. Pictorial history of chemistry · Illustrations: 20 engravings, including historiated t.p. Each of the 19 plates, bound in at the end, consists of an engraving showing distillation or other process and requisite equipment, an engraved description below and one of the five different elaborately engraved architectural frames on the other three sides. The border on plates 2, 5, 9, 13 and 17 contains the author's name and device, giving rise to the speculation that he may have executed the illustrations. Includes floreated initials and an array of tailpieces. Text is set within a frame line, and within a greater frame containing in the margins printed glosses · Includes: Tavola delle varie infirmata, secondo il linguaggio Arabica, Greco, e Latina, p. 133-166; Tavola de gli scrittori di medicina e di chirugia Arabi, Greco, Latini, e Italiani, p. 166-168; and Osservazioni intorno a' semplici della ricetta dell'elixir vitae, p. 169-181 · Errori occorsi nello stampare, p. 182 · Signatures: maltese cross,A-H²I-ZAa-

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