Praetiosum donum Dei

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 148
  • Dates of Creation
    • 15--
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • Sm. 8vo. 119 pages. 15.2x10.4 cm. Calf

Scope and Content

Praetiosum donum Dei. [In Latin]. XVIth century.
1. p1-74 Incipit liber intitulatus Praetiosum Donum Dei.
[With 12 finely executed watercolour drawings on pages 18, 21, 25, 29, 33, 38, 40, 44, 46, 48, 52, and 56.]
[At end]: 'Explicit Liber qui intitulatus Praetiosum Donum Dei scriptum per me Georgium Aurach de Argentina, et etiam depictum manibus propriis sub Anno Domini 1475. Copia haec sumpta est ab ipso originali, scripto in membranis aureo minio, et caeruleo colore ornatis.'
2. p75-119 Liber qui intitulatus Hortus Divitiarum. Compositus per me Georgium Aurach de Argentina sub Anno Domine 1475.
p88-90 [3 drawings in pen and grey watercolour of alchemical furnaces.]

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