Artzeney Puch

With an 'Abschrift des 'Rosarium Philosophorum' gefertigt Januar 1903, durch Dr. Carl Gerster zu Braunfels.' Illustrated with pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus on fol. 3v, and on fol 42v in the second part, and of a poultice on fol. 129. Some marginal and interlinear corrections and additions in red ink by a later 16th cent. hand. The second work, which has been written on blank leaves of the original MS., is a transcript of the second volume of the collection of alchemical tracts published at Frankfort by Cyriacus Jacobus in 1550, under the title 'De alchimia opuscula complura veterum philosophorum'. Dr. Gerster has pasted in pen-drawn copies of the t.p. and woodcut illustrations of the original, done on tracing paper.

1903

1 volume 4 bl. ll.+215 ff.+52 ff. folio. 32 x 20 cm. 1550. Original stamped white calf binding over wooden boards, worn: one of the two metal clasps wanting.

Purchased 1931.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000, and AACR2.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Description compiled by Ross MacFarlane based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat.

Catalogued MS.89

Large Ex-libris of 'Karl Gerster Dr. med. & phil. Geh. Sanitätsrat in Braunfels' pasted inside cover. The MS. is lettered on the spine '1550 Manuscript Artzeney Puch'.