[Alchemical treatises by Christophorus Parisiensis, including correspondence by and to him]

iv, 99 leaves : illustrations iv, 99 leaves : Holographs?/mss Title and note on contents from Bibliotheca Osleriana Includes: (1) "Epistola ... nominata ... sumetta de la arte transmutatoria, realiter et essencialiter mandata a Andrea Ogniben Veneto," dated "Ex pariso. 1472. die 14 septembris," followed by 2 "alphabeta pro suprascripta sumetta," dated 18 Aug., 1473 (2) "Testamento ouero uioletta" (3) "Pratica a la uia uegetabile ... et e ditta la pratica del fiozo," followed by "Copia de le littere scripte per Andrea Ogniben a ... Cristoforo de Paris preceptor suo," dated Venice, 7 Feb., 1478 (4) "Incipit opus magni lapidis ... quod ... lucidarium nuncupatur artis transmutatorie," in 3 bks. ... (drawings at end; alchemical recipes at leaf 42; Latin extracts "de libro Ortolani" at leaf 46) Provenance: Phillipps MS. 2323 (seemingly bought in 1824 from Thos. Thorpe, bookseller); bought at Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, May 1913