Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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A group of alchemic recipes in Latin and Italian. They begin on f. 172 with the words Recepta optima ad lavorar et coraglio cioe ad farlo tenero et informare come vorrai (rubricated); they ends on f. 175r with the words et liga cum tertia parte argenti cupellati.

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An alchemic recipe which begins with the words Primo purga pone and ends with argenti fixi et funde in ca[...] et habebis.

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An alchemic recipe in German which is introduced by the Latin words Nota bene.

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Written in the same cursive hand of the followinf recipe, the Nota secretum lune et solis (in Latin).

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Alchemic prescriptions in German. On f. 95r the ink is very faded.

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Possibly written by one of the hands at work in the alchemic prescriptions on ff. 68v-72v or by another later hand.

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Alchemic recipes in Latin (ff. 68v-71r) and in German (ff. 71r-72v).

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The recipes are written by at least two different hands, both later than the first hand and more cursive.

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...

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This is a composite manuscripts containing several texts, written in southern Germany or in Austria in the second half of the 15th century. It is a collection of recipes and other texts, mainly medical and almost entirely in German, made up of four parts which differ much in script and in the quality of the paper.

For a full description of the manuscript, see the bibiography note in "Additional description".

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An alchemic recipe on the congealing of mercury. It begins with the words Accipe de eo quantum vis et pone in cucurbitam tectam and ends with quum voluerit facere multitudinem bonam habet gratiam.

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Possibly written by one of the hands at work in some of the other recipes.

Contents The short text is an alchemic recipe presented as a letter and identified by the copist as Epistola pulchra ad lunam (the word luna in alchemy indicates silver). The text begins on f. 74r with the words Magnifice mi domine singularissime ista est recepta per ordinem sicut expertus fui de aqua; it ends on f. 75r with the words Ideo reiteranda solutio et congelatio ut...

Contents An index of the alchemic recipes contained in the Experimenta (ff. 2-68v), organised in two columns and with indication of folio numbers.It begins on f. 121r with the words Sic calcinatur luna. Fixio mercurii and ends on f. 123r with separacio auri ab argento ad clarificandos oculos. Writing Seemingly written by the same hand of the...