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Aquae quae fit ex alumine vulcani solvens omnia solutione subita, 1478

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Identifier: MS 131/f. 86r-86v

Contents

Two recipes for solutions which dissolve.

First recipe: it begins on f. 86r and it is introduced by the rubricated words Aqua que fit ex alumine vulcani solvens omnia solutione subita. The recipe starts with the words [R]ecipe alume de vulcano et distilla and ends on f. 86v with the words sine igne aqua evaporante.

Second recipe: on f. 86v. It is introduced by the rubricated words Aqua que cuncta corpora solvit in hora and it starts with the words [R]ecipe mercurii sublimati; the recipe ends with the words omnia corpora solvit et reducitm in aquam.

Dates

  • Creation: 1478

Creator

Language of Materials

Latin.

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Full Extent

1 folios

Bibliography

Singer, Dorothea Waley. Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland. Dating from before the XVI Century, vol. 2. Brussels: Maurice Lamertin, 1930, p. 367-8, n. 476.

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