Volume 2

Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson.

  • John Ferguson
Date:
1895-1915
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Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Opera Nova | Piacevole Laqvale | Insegna Di Far Varie | composition! odorifere per far | bella ciafchuna donna. | Et agiontoui molti fecreti neceffarii | alia falute humana como in la ta- | bula fe contiene. Intitulata | Venvsta. | [Device of Tobit and the Angel, as in the Dificio, 1550, by the same printers. That in the Recettario, 1528, and in Michael Scotus’ Physonomia is different.] In Vinegia appreffo di Francefco Bin- | doni, & Mapheo Pafini. | M. D. l. | Small 8vo. A to D in fours; or, ff. 15 numbered, and I not numbered. Roman character. Ai, Title. Verso-. Evstachio Celebrino alii Lettori. A2 recto, The Text begins, and ends Dii verso. Diii recto, Tabula begins, and ends Div recto. The verso is blank. At the foot of Div recto is the colophon: ([ A laude de lo eterno Dio: & vtilita del feme humano, | Finiffe la eccellentisfima opera intitulata Venufta | Stampata ne la inclita Citta di Vinegia per | Francefco Bindoni, & Mapheo Pafi-1 ni compagni. Nelli anni del Si-1 gnore. M. D. L. It is a small collection of cosmetic secrets: to make unguents, washes, soaps, perfumes, wines, to beautify the skin, hair, teeth; and there are others on subjects similar to some in Albertus. A work on the theme of the present volume appeared in a French translation in 1561, of which there is a notice below (§ 43). I have not been able to compare the two, and do not know if the whole or any part of the Italian was included in that translation. In any case, the French book is larger than the Italian one, and the author must therefore have had other sources to draw upon. 27. [May, 1898. In the first Supplement (§ 21)* there was a notice of a little book on the art of perfumery printed at Venice in 1555. I have just got another edition of the same tract. Notandissimi | Secreti De d’Arte | Profvmatoria, | Per far Ogli, Acque, Pafte, Balle, Mofcardini, Vccel- | letti, Paternoftri, e tutta l’arte intiera, | come fi ricerca, | Cofi nella citta di Napoli del Reame, come in | Roma, e quini (sic) in la citta di Vinegia | nuouamente ristampati. | Con Privilegio. | [Device: Two cupids holding laurel wreaths, flying above a cloud, with the motto Et Animo et Corpori ; enclosed in a scroll border.] In Venetia. | Small 8vo. Signatures: A to I( in eights; or, ff. 74, and table [6]. After the table the colophon: In Venetia appreffo Francefco Rampazetto, | M. D. LX. | Printed in italics. At the foot of f. 73 verso is the note: E tutte quefte cofe fon compofte per Gio- | uanni Ventura Rofeto Veneto. | * Transactions, N. S., II., p. 386.