Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 65

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• Latin MS 65

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Language

• Latin

Title

• Lumen luminum
• Verba secreta in arte Alkimie
• Liber qui dicitur Lilium
• Secretis astrologie inferioris
• Liber alkimicus metricus
• Liber uerborum secretos Hermetis artis alkimie
• Compendium Lucidii
• Summa perfectionis
• Vademecum
• De pulcra forma margaritarum seu preciosarum lapidum
• Flos florum
• Allegorie philosophice
• Turba philosophorum
• De occultis nature
• De secretis nature
• Lilium intelligentie philosophorum
• De operationibus et preparationibus ueris
• Liber lucis
• Liber claritatis
• Liber radicalis principii
• Ad cognoscendum doctrinam ad intelligendam dicta obscura eorum
• Versus boni pro lapide philosophorum pro medicinis
• Pratica Marie prophetisse sororis Moysi et Aaron
• Liber de essentiis essentiarum
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  • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al- Rāzī (0864?-0925?)

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  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-, 864-925
  • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (b. 854, d. 925), physician, alchemist and philosopher

  Other form

  • RHAZES
  • Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī
  • محمد بن زكريا الرازي
  • MUḤAMMAD ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (Faḫr al-Dīn Abū Bakr)
  • Mohammad ibn Zakaria al-Razi
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al- (0864?-0925?)
  • Nağm al-Dīn Abū Bakr ‛Abd-ullāh b. Muḥ. b. Šāhvār Asadī Rāzī
  • Razi
  • Abu Bakr Al-Razi
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al- (0864?-0925?)
  • Muḥammad ibn Zakariyā al-Rāzī
  • الرازي، محمد بن زكريا أبو بكر الرازي (0864?-0925?)
  • محمد بن زكريا أبو بكر الرازي
  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī
  • أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي (0864?-0925?)
  • أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي
  • Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr Al-Razi
  • Rhazès
  • ابي بكر محمّد بن زكريّا الرازي
  • Rhazi
  • Rhazes
  • Rasis
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al- 0864?-0925?
  • Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?
  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn-Zakarīyā ar- 865-925
  • Author: Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn-Zakarīyā ar-
  • Al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā’ (d. c.313 AH / 925 CE)
  • Rāzī (Rhazes), Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā
  • Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī
  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā
  • Al-Razi
  • Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā’ al-Rāzī (d. 925?)
  • Rhasis (al-Razi)
  • Razes (Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariyya al-Razi)
  • Razes (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi)
  • Rhazeus
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn-Zakarīyā ˜ar-,œ 865-925
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn-Zakarīyā /ar-
  • Rāzī, Muḥammad Ibn-Zakarīyā ar
  • Muhammad ibn ZakarÊAiyÊAa, AbÊAu Bakr, al-RÊAazÊAi, 865?-925?
  • Muhammad Ibn-Zakariya Razi (Rhazes, Rasis) - 865 - 925 - auteur
  • Rhazes (Râzî)
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  • Arnoldus de Villa Nova
  • Arnold of Villanova
  • Arnoldus <de Villa Nova> (1235-1312)
  • Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311.
  • Ranellus de Bellanova
  • Arnaldus, de Villanova (-1311)
  • Arnaud de Villeneuve (1240-1311)
  • Arnau de Vilanova
  • Arnoldus
  • Arnaldus de Villanova
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  • Iohannes de Rupescissa OFM (attrib.)
  • Johannes de Rupescissa
  • Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365.
  • Johannes de Rupescissa (approximately 1300-approximately 1365)
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  • תומס דה אקוינו
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  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas d'Aquin
  • Thomas de Aquino
  • Thome
  • B. Thomas d'Aquinas
  • THOMAS DE AQUINO (s.), O.P.
  • Thomas d'Aquin (Saint)
  • Thomas, d'Aquin, saint, 1225?-1274
  • Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
  • Thomas de Aquino 1225-1274
  • Thomas van Aquino
  • Tomàs, d'Aquino, sant, 1225?-1274
  • Tomás de Aquino, Santo, 1225?-1274
  • Author: Thomas, de Aquino
  • Scribe: Thomas, de Aquino
  • Aquinas, Thomas
  • Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
  • Thomas d'Aquin (saint ; 1225?-1274). Auteur présumé
  • Thomas d'Aquin (saint ; 1225?-1274). Commentateur
  • Thomas Aquinas OP
  • Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
  • Thomas Aquinas, 1225?-1274
  • Thomas d'Aquin (saint)
  • Thomas<de Aquino>
  • S. Thomas d’Aquin
  • Thomas <von Aquin, Heiliger> (1225-1274)
  • Thomas <von Aquino> (????-1297)
  • Thomas von Aquin
  • Thoma Aquinas
  • Divus Thoma
  • S. Thomas
  • D. Thoma Aquinas
  • Divus Thomae
  • Thomas Aquinatis
  • Thomas
  • Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
  • Thomas d'Aquin (1225-1274)
  • Thomas, von Aquin, Heiliger, 1225-1274
  • Thomas <de Aquino>
  • Tomás de Aquino, Santo, 1225-1274, O.P.
  • Tomás de Aquino, Santo, 1225-1274 > , ant. bibliog.
  • Tomás de Aquino, Santo, 1225-1274 > , coment.
  • Tomás de Aquino, Santo, 1225-1274 > , impr.
  • Tomás de Aquino, Santo, 1225-1274 > , co-autor
  • Thomas de Aquino - 1225 - 1274 - auteur
  • Saint Thomas d'Aquin
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  • William Bragge (1823-1884)

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  • Bragge, William, 1823-1884
  • William Bragge (b. 1823, d. 1884), engineer, antiquarian and author

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  • Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899)

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  • Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher
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  • Bernard Quaritch
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  • James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)

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  • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
  • Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913

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  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
  • Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
  • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
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  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
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Description

• Extent:
  ff. 220 Leaf height: 237 mm, width: 175 mm.
  Binding:
  

  Stamped leather over wooden boards. Two metal clasps. On each clasp is 'pħs' and on the upper one is a large 'S'. Five metal bosses on each cover, spine crudely repaired.

  
  Decoration:
  

  Each treatise has an initial in gold and colour

  
  Folio 168v: apparatus
  Folio 172r: drawing of a furnace
  Folios Figure and tables in red and black
  
  
  Acquisition:
  

  Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.

  
  Layout:
  

  1 column, 38 lines to a page

  
  Collation:
  

  Quire a², 1 lines cover
  Quire 1¹⁰
  Quire 2⁸
  Quire 3¹⁰
  Quires 4-11⁸
  Quire 12¹⁰
  Quire 13⁸
  Quire 14¹⁰, 3 and 9 cancelled
  Quire 15⁸
  Quire 16¹², 3 and 11 cancelled
  Quires 17-25⁸
  Quire 26¹²
  12 lines cover: 1 now follows 11
  
  

  
  Data Source(s):
  Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
  Subject(s):
  Alchemy
  Abstract:
  

  Alchemical miscellany, produced in the fifteenth century, probably in Italy. For an analysis of the contents and identification of the treatises it contains see Helen M. Briggs, 'De Duobus Fratribus Minoribus Medii Aevi Alchemistis, Fr. Paulo de Tarento et Fr. Elia', in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, xx (1927).

  
  Foliation:
  

  Foliated 1-222.

  
  Format:
  Codex
  Material:
  Parchment.
  Provenance:
  

  Inner front cover, in pencil, is 'Bragge No. 5', which refers to William Bragge (b. 1823, d. 1884), engineer, antiquarian and author of Birmingham, the sale of whose manuscripts took place on 7th June 1876.

  Bought by Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher for the Bibliotheca Lindesiana for £14.5s. (Lot 5) (CLL, 1876, no. 177; CLI, 1874-76, no. 876).

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