Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.14

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  • Other label of the document :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.14
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.14
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.14
    • Wellcome Library, MS.14
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 2 leaves + 39 leaves folio. 30 x 20 1/2 cm. 18th cent. limp vellum covers. Verso of last leaf slightly rubbed, some headings and text badly faded.

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Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Liber mineralium. Books I and II only and one page of Book III. (There are five Books comprising the published original).

    Written in a small neat humanistic hand, 28 lines to a page.

    Fol. 1 (Beginning of Book I) BEATI ALBERTI MAGNI GERMANICI PHILOSOPHI /CELEBERRIMI MINERALIVM LIBER INCIPIT ET/PRIMO DE LAPIDIBVS LIBER PRIMVS FOELICITER [D]E COMMIXTIONE et coagulatione similiter autem et conge/latione et liquefactione ... to fol. 39 (End of Book II) ... sed quedam portio/nes de libro excepte deuenerunt.

    Fol. 39v (Beginning of Book III) TEMPVS autem est nunc [consequenter] de metallorum naturis inquirere post la/pidum inuestigationem... line 28 ... in communi querentes quicumque de natura metallorum uidebuntur esse inquirenda Libro complebimus. Only one page of text from book three is in this manuscript.

  • This work was first printed at Padua in 1476. On the second fly-leaf is a note in pencil 'Alberti Magni MS. 1474', but no date can be found in this manuscript as it exists at present. On the first fly-leaf is a signature 'Barba' by an early 17th cent. hand, which may possibly be that of Alvaro Alonso Barba, the metallurgist and author of 'Arte de los metales', Madrid, 1640.
  • Purchased 1934.

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  • 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).

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