Livre de raison

recettes de medecine et d'alchimie, vers latins et français, etc

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

93 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 199 x 149 mm bound to 196 x 147 mm; A detailed typewritten description of the manuscript, on the stationery of Henry Schuman in New York, is on file in the Library. This description is not dated.; Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) limp parchment (Zacour-Hirsch). Many leaves stained. Evidence of worm damage. Parchment splitting and pulling away from the cardboard around which it is wrapped. Pastedown endleaves pulling loose.; Collation: Paper, 93; 1¹⁴ 2-3¹⁶ 4¹⁴ 5¹⁸ 6¹⁴; [1-93]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. There is also modern pagination in pencil for the second text, which is oriented according to the second text in the upper right recto, [i]-ii, [iii-ix], x, [xi-ix], xx, [xi-xxiii], xxiv.; Decoration: Ink sketch (f. 41v).; First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Jay fouvry poure ... (f. 42r) et se convertera en huile.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; In a French dialect, with some Latin and Italian.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in France in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch). The dates 1659 and 1687 appear in the volume.; Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands. Title page added in later hand (f. 1r).; Second work, incipit and explicit (begins at opposite end of volume): (f. 91v) Pour le jeresaur registre ... (f. 69r) qui ne fait trop peu poudussaut.; Title from title page (f. 1r).