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Add MS 32622

Record Id:
032-002026674
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002026674
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x000326
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32622
Title:

1. "SECRETUM Philosophorum": a compendium of natural philosophy, etc., with examples and recipes, arranged under the heads of Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectics, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy; with coloured diagrams. It begins: "Iste liber, quem præ manibus habemus, vocatur Secretum philosophorum, et intitulatur isto nomine quia in co continentur quædam secreta quæ reputatione vulgari stint impossibilia, apud philosophos secreta et necessaria." (See SI. MS. 2579, Add. MS. 18,752.) f. 3.

2. "Experimenta Alberti" Magni, de herbis, lapidibus, et animalibus. Begins: "Sicut dicit philosophus, omnis scientia est de genere bonorum." (See Ar. MS. 251. f. 25 ; SI. MS. 3281. f. 15.) f. 84 b.

3. "Liber de aquis, et primo de aqua preciosa herbarum": directions for distilling waters of various kinds. Begins: "Actus mirabilis aquarum quas composuit Petrus Hispanus cum naturali industria." f. 95.

4. Recipes for curing wounds and diseases, making unguents, treating stones and metals, etc. Fr. and Lat. f. 104.

5. "Summa experimentorum medicinalium Magistri Petri Ispaliensis, qui dicitur liber nomine thesaurus pauperum." f. 116. Vellum; written in England early in the XIVth cent. A few recipes and extracts have been added on spare leaves. The name of John Bayly, an owner in 1611, is on f. 179 b. Originally in Tudor binding. Small Octavo.

Scope & Content:

Natural Science and Philosophy: Secretum Philosophorum, etc.: 14th cent.

Bindings ENGLAND: Stamped leather: Tudor style: 16th cent.

includes:

  • f. 3 Secretum Philosophorum: : 14th cent.
  • f. 84 b Albertus Magnus: Experimenta de herbis, lapidibus et animalibus.: 14th cent.
  • f. 95 John XXI; Pope: Liber de aquis: 14th cent.
  • f. 95 Chemistry: Petri Hispani liber de Aquis: 14th cent.
  • f. 116 Thesaurus Pauperum: Tract on medicine by "Petrus Ispaliensis": 14th cent.
  • f. 116 John XXI; Pope: Thesaurus pauperum : on medicine, attributed to "Petrus Ispaliensis": 14th cent.
  • f. 116 Medicine: Petri Ispalensis Thesaurus Pauperum: 14th cent.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy:
032-002026674
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1611
Date Range:
Early 14th century-1611
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

John Bayly: Owned: in 1611.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Albertus Magnus, of Add MS 32622
Bayly, John, former owner of manuscript compendium, fl 1611
John XXI, Pope, d 1277