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Splendor solis oder Sonnen Glantz

by Salomon Trismosin

  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Language: German
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Alchemical treatise about the philosophers' stone divided into seven "tracts."

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

41 leaves : parchment ; 306 x 200 mm bound to 313 x 205 mm; Binding: 16th-century German vellum over pasteboards, with remnants of green fabric ties.; Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 41 + i (paper); 1-9⁴, 10⁴(+1); 1-34, [i], 35-40; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart; first quire almost completely detached.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; German.; Incipit and explicit: (f. 2r) Vorrede dises Buechs. Alphidius einer der Alten Weisen ... (f. 41v) so die alten weÿsen Inn der Kunst Gerwurcket haben. &c. Ende.; Ms. codex.; No illustrations, though many may have been intended. Descriptions of intended illustrations written in contemporary cursive on blank pages.; Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 16th century.; Script: Written in a late Gothic bookhand.; Title from title page (f. 1r). Full title on f. 1r: Das gegenwürtige Buch wirt genannt Splendor solis oder Sonnen glantz tailt inn Siben Tractat durch welches becschriben wirt die kunstlich Würkhung des verborgnen Stains der Alten Weisen....

1550—German—Public download

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  • ark:/81431/p35w0h

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Cataloging notes

  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9915804503503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 108
  • Provenance: Acquired, 1952.
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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