Liber mirabilium
- First published:
- 15th century
- Language: Latin
- Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 500. Piran, 1452. Alchemical and medical compendium containing recipes and texts from a variety of sources, many of which appear with traditional (now suspect) attributions in other manuscripts, with an alphabetical index to recipes at the beginning of the volume. Occasional manicules and annotations added by readers. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Find
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Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.
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- “Alchemy”· in subject
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Editions
One edition cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1452-01-01T00:00:00Z | — | Latin | — | Public digitized item |
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Cataloging notes
- Contributing institution: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; openn
- Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.9.5
- Source-reported rights: Public Domain
- Catalog id
- internet-archive:ljs500
- Edition coverage
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