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Italian alchemical manuscripts and printed selections

University of Delaware Library, MSS 95, Item 16. Italy, 16th century to mid-17th century. 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.

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