[Dicta Bartholomei. Liber de Coytu. Liber secretoru…]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 104
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1364
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • Sm. 4to. 110 folios. 19x14.3 cm. Old vellum, with brass plate on back

Scope and Content

Dicta Bartholomei. Liber de Coytu. Liber secretorum alchimie ... a magistro Constantino. Summa perfectionis, by Geber. With other works. 1364.
1. f3-25v Dicta bartholomei. Neccessarium vndequoque perueniant. vnde omnes magistri antiquarum erudiciones scienciarum...
2. f25v-32 Incipit liber de Coytu. Creator volens animalium genus firmiter... aqua sit solutum apium. Explicit liber de coitu.
[See Constantinius Affricanus, 'Constantini opera', Basel, 1539, pp.299-307.]
3. f32-57 Hic incipit liber secretorum alchimie.
f43-46 [Nine small circular 'Lullist' diagrams.]
4. f57-66 Hic incipit primum capitulum huius tincture.
5. f67-82 Isti sunt tituli capitulorum cuiusdam tractatus. qui est de extractis. siue compilat' quibusdam magic necessariis. de libro Geber.
f82 [At end of this section of text]: 'Explicit Summa Geber Seconde Magisterii'.
[A summary of Geber, 'Summa perfecti magisterii'.]
6. f84-91 [Recipes.]
7. f91 Iste liber completus est per manu nicolai altsmet sacerdotis Anno dom MCCCLXIIII.
[Formerly accessioned as 1145]

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