[Collection of alchemical treatises]

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

79 leaves : paper ; 165 x 100 (127 x 77) mm bound to 174 x 105 mm; Binding: Contemporary parchment.; English philologist who taught at the University of Paris and briefly at the University of Toulouse. He fled to Paris in 1231 during the upheaval in Toulouse following the Albigensian Crusade. He was a prolific Latin poet and his grammatical works were widely printed in England. The alchemical treatise on the Smaragdine Tablet attributed to him was possibly written by the 14th-century alchemist Ortolanus, about whom little is known.; Latin.; Layout: Written in 25-27 long lines.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 18th century.; Pagination: 79 leaves; [iv], 1-92, 97-115, [116-153], 156, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Horizontal catchwords, lower right corners. Pages 93-96 of the text appear to be lacking.; Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; Script: Written in a semi-cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.; Table of contents: 1. p.1-15: De praeparatione elixiris libellus / [Johannes de Garlandia] -- 2. p.15-89: De mineralibus liber / [Johannes de Garlandia] -- 3. p.90: Tabula Smaragdinae -- 4. p.91-112: Expositio tabula Smaragdinae / facta ab Hortulano Garlandii -- 4. p.113-156: Synonimorum in arte alchemistica expositio.; Title supplied by cataloger.