MS.13

[p]Semita recta. Preceded by an incomplete and unidentified al-chemical work. Written in a large gothic script, 14 lines to a page: capitals, Incipits, and paragraph marks in red.[/p] [p]Fol. 1 (red) Incipit alberti [?] archanorum [?] archanum. /Cum sit nobilis quedam medicina elixir a phy/losophis nuncupata... line 9 (Text begins) Cum vniuersa uolumina phylosophie/tanquam uagabundus aberrans/perlustrassem... 17v de die in diem contricio pulueris/ [/p] [p]Fol. 18 (red) Incipit recta semita alkymie alberti./Omnis sapientia. est. que. a. D.O./M.I.N.O. DEO est et cum/illo fuit semper ... 19 (Text begins) Cum ergo multas regiones/et plurimas prouincias... 69v ... tunc scias quod uersum est in solem/uel lunam. (red) Explicit.[/p] [p]Written by another hand inside the upper cover 'Anno 1492'.[/p]

69 ll. 8vo. 16 x 12 cm. On vellum: original stamped leather binding over wooden boards, spine damaged. Leather portion of a brass and leather clasp wanting. Leaves wanting after ff. 17, 51, 57, 65, 67: first leaf slightly rubbed, with loss of part of the Incipit.; leaf dimensions: width cm, length cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

[p]Purchased by Sir Henry Wellcome at the Phillipps sale ([i]Further portion of the classical, historical, topographical, genealogical and other manuscripts & autograph letters of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps ... including upwards of two hundred volumes on vellum dating from the tenth century ... pt. 14[/i]), at Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 6 June 1910, Lot 10.[/p]

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