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Title

Penn Library's LJS 382 - [Alchemical compendium]. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

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Date of this Version

6-22-2022

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 328, a collection of alchemical notes gathered by Georg Hayniger of Dormpoch, near Vienna, ca. 1476. Includes recipes, with several for potable gold (aurus potabilis) and tincture of cinnabar (tinctura de cinobrio), suggesting a focus on medical applications of alchemy, and with some notes on efficacy; diagrams; and 2 lists of alchemical works (f. 2v-3r, 4v-5r), with references to authors such as Arnaldus de Villanova, Ramon Lull, Johannes de Rupescissa, and Albertus Magnus. It also contains 6 drawings of laboratory apparatus, including alembics and furnaces, several of which can be seen in this video.

Digital copies and a full record are available through Franklin: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957839383503681

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783938

Link to eBook

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/115

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs382.html

Keywords

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800, Alchemy, Alchemy -- Bibliography, Medicine -- Formulae receipts prescriptions -- Early works to 1800, Medicine -- Formulae receipts prescriptions, Codices, Diagrams, Drawings (visual works), Recipes, Manuscripts Latin, Manuscripts German, Manuscripts Czech, Manuscripts Medieval, Manuscripts Renaissance.

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2022, June 22). Penn Library's LJS 382 - [Alchemical compendium]. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/135