| Description |
1 volume (122 leaves) : illustrations ; 32 cm x 21 cm |
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| Language |
In French. |
| Summary |
Seventeenth-century copy of a fifteenth-century translation and re-working on the Rosarius Philosophorum, one of the most important texts in the corps of alchemical works that circulated under the name of Arnald of Villanova. This text is extant in only two known copies. The Othmer Libary's copy is notable for its numerous detailed illustrations of alchemical equipment and contemporary marginal notes, and offers evidence of alchemical studies in early seventeenth-century France. |
| Note |
Part or all of this item has been digitized by Science History Institute. |
| Provenance |
Written in France in the early seventeenth-century, perhaps circa 1600-1640, most likely in Northeastern France in the area of Arras or Cambrai, or possibly Rouen, as suggested by the fact that it is a copy of a fifteenth-century manuscript copied in Arras (now in the Bibliothèque municipale of Cambrai), and its subsequent ownership in the eighteenth-century by a doctor in Rouen; Belonged to J. Gilbert, the physician of the Archbishop of Rouen (?), who signed his name in 1743: "J. Gilbert, adr[?] l'archeveque medic. Rothomag. 1743" (inscription, f. ii, signature repeated on f. 115v, and verso of last blank); Signed "B.D. Delevue[?], in ink, f. i (eighteenth- or nineteenth-century); Unidentified early engraved heraldic bookplate, inside front cover, lion rampant azure; Modern cataloguing notes in pencil, f. i; Belonged to Joost R. Ritman (born 1941), the Dutch businessman and distinguished collector of art and books; aquired in 1999 from Chastenay (as reported in Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections); Bibliotheca Philosophia Hermetica MS 204 (bookplate, inside front cover); briefly described in Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (Online Resources). |
| Note |
Bound in contemporary limp vellum over pasteboard, smooth spine with title in ink, "Petit Rosaire d'Arnaud de Villenueve," rubbed, darkened and slightly soiled, ties missing, covering at top and bottom corners and bottom of spine slightly damaged. |
| Gift |
Purchase; Les Enluminures; 2013. |
| Subject(s) |
Alchemy -- Manuscripts.
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Alchemy -- 17th century -- Manuscripts.
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Manuscripts -- 17th century.
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Scientific illustration -- Manuscripts.
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Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Manuscripts.
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Manuscripts, French -- 17th century.
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Manuscripts. rbmscv
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Vellum bindings. rbmscv
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Bookplates. rbmscv
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| Alternate Author |
Ritman, Joost R., former owner.
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Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History.
Manuscript.
MS 9.
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Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.
Manuscript.
MS 204.
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| Related Title |
Rosarium philosophorum
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Rosarivm philosophorvm
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