Liber secretorum

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 3
  • Dates of Creation
    • 15--
  • Language of Material
    • Italian
  • Physical Description
    • Bound vol. 226 fols. 21.8x13.3 cm. 8vo. Bd. in vellum. Leather titlepiece on spine

Scope and Content

Liber secretorum. [In Italian]. XVIth century.
A series of chemical recipes for colouring glass, making pigments, etc. Italian with section headings in Latin.
Contents: f1 A fare el bianco perli vasi de Terre.
f1v Christalli vitri & lapidum solutio seu mollificatio, & coloratio.
f3 Ad tingendum christallum in colore Smeraldj.
f4v Borax.
f11 Cinabrium.
f14 Coralli ex cornibus manubria et similia.
f24 Sal Nitrum tam naturale quam Artificiale.
f24 Azurium.
f34 Argentum vivum de plumbo.
f36 Aloes epatica.
f37 Sal armoniacus.
f44 Ambre.
f46v Amollificare lambra.
f77-93 Tractatus de vitris Smaltis Musaicis Lapidibus Annulorum sofisticis, & de omnibus eorum coloribus universalibus conficiendis. [31 chapters.]
f93v-96v Lapidum preciosorum secatio quadratio politio et duplarum coloratio et conglutinatio. [27 chapters.]
f97-98 Incipit secundus de nominibus et coloribus lapidum et primo de albis numerorum. [9 chapters.]
f98v-99 Liber tertius. [4 chapters.]
f100 Perle
f111 Sanguinis draconis sofisticatio.
f113 Sofisticatio muscita fit.
f124 Sapo lollis ultramarinus sic fit.
f126v Crucibula.
f131 Minium.
f132 Cerusa.
f132v Tinctura sete panni repet similium.
f141 Tartaresca cio e colori da stampare in pani cum forme, et senza.
f169 Ad faciendum corium rubeum.
f165 Argento sublimatio.
f167v Ferri deauratio tam cum aquis quam cum auro.
f172v Ferri corrosio dissolutio ac irarum, et imaginum impressio.
f175 Vernix liquida.
f176v Vitrum non frangibile.
f179 Indicum.
f181 Inveteratio.
f192 Vinum.
f200 Finestre de tela.
f200v Acetum.
f211 Clore de copelle per Sazare.
f221 Minium et cerusa.
A number of other subsections not here noted. A small number of rough drawings of apparatus flasks, crucibles, etc. are found throughout the text.

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