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Collection of short alchemical tracts and receipts in Italian, followed by an incomplete collection of medical, technical and alchemical receipts by a different hand.
Written by two different semi-current hands. Illustrated by some small pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus on ff. 4v, 16, 54: fol. 51, bust of a negro (?): 52, an urn: 52v, a candlestick (?): 55, human penis, and bust of a man with a bandaged head: 55v, a finger nail (in red): 58, a female head (in red): 62, another female head. The second part, which is incomplete at the beginning and at the end, begins on fol. 39.
Contents
f. 1r Opera bona vera del magno Rinaldo dada a papa bonifacio. Una parte de hauro foglito sutile ... f. 1v detta medicina fara loperatione commo fa lasietta lopera sua. Amen.
2. ff. 2r-14r Anonymous, Arte d'archimia
f. 2r Onipotente dio che face tutte le cose per la salute de l'omo ... f. 14r E segondo el ditto de ermes de arestotile e de alberto magno e segondo el ditto de maestri del arte avimo ditto di metalli.
3. ff. 14r-19v Pseudo-Aristotle, Lumen de lumine
f. 14r Questo libro e chiamato lumi del altri libri nel quale segondo che posso vedere ello e cosa maravigliosa ... f. 19v ... adessere richo e contento tu e la tua fameglia tutti i di de la vita vestra e de la lore vita e in secula seculorum amen.
4. ff. 20v-26r Alchemical receipts in Latin and Italian
f. 20v Opera bona de S. tomaxo daquino sopra de la luna ... f. 23r Recetta fatta per maestro gualtero da verona ... f. 26r Al nome de dio 1470 a di 17 de setembre.
5. ff. 26v-32r Anonymous, De mercurio
f. 26v Sublimatio mercurii hoc modo fit vis. R mercurii li. 3. salis communis preparati li. 2 ... f. 32r ... et cosi havera questa pietra due fermitione una de luna et una de sole et ellora fara oro fino. laus deo.
6. ff. 32v-38v Miscellaneous receipts
7. ff. 39r-63r Fragment of work containing technical, medical and alchemical receipts
f. 39r [Heading in 17th century hand] Raccolta di diversi secreti, senza principio e fine, e senza nome dell' Autore.
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