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Mogliettis, Giuseppe de. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Mogliettis, Giuseppe de
- Mogliettis, Giuseppe de
- Date:
- c. 1550-1659
- Reference:
- MS.563
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"Altissimus liber et profundus ubi continentur multa segreta [sic] chimica, alchimica et de Lapide Philosophico. G[iuseppe] D[e] M[ogliettis] A[ssisio]."
The text mainly written about 1550 by an unnamed compiler, but with added receipts and notes by G. de Mogliettis: in Latin and Italian.
Ms 563/10 (fols. 132r-169r) is apparently copied from Rosarium philosophorum secunda pars alchimiae de lapide philosophico vero modo praeparando, continens exactam eius scientiae progressionem (Madrid: Offic. Cyriaci Jacobi, 1550), fol. D2v ff.
On fol. 231 is a rough pen-drawing of the 'Arbor alchemica'.
The t.p. (second leaf) is surrounded by a historiated border in four panels, containing pen-drawings, tinted in red, of alchemical apparatus, etc. It is surmounted by an unidentified heraldic shield: on a fess, three bulls' heads.
The 12 preliminary leaves, and from fol. 234 to the end, are holograph by G. de Mogliettis: on the fifth leaf is the date 1659, and on the seventh 'G.M.D.A. 1658'.
Publication/Creation
c. 1550-1659
Physical description
1 volume 12 ll. + 235 ff. + 4 ll. 4 to. 20 + 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding, 18th cent. flowered paper back; both leather ties defective. Some leaves are wanting after the 11th preliminary leaf, and at the end: fol. 225 is also wanting.
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Purchased 1922.
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Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973), with subsequent additions.
Notes
On fol. 172 is a reference to the 'De alchimia opuscula complura' published by C. Jacobus at Frankfort in 1550. No. 17 is also doubtfully attributed to Arnoldus de Villanova ('Flores lilii') in Thorndike 'Catalogue of Incipits', col. 256, also in his 'History of Magic and Experimental Science' Vol. III, pp. 62, 63, 660, 661: Mrs. Singer's 'Catalogue of Alchemical MSS., No. 120, assigns it to Rhazes. Fol. 230v contains the explanatory text, and Fol. 231 the Diagram of an 'Alchemical Tree', by the 16th cent. compiler. The text begins: 'Ista est arbor composita de principiis Alphabeti et est composita ad finem quod magis breuiter Artista / huius artis possit venire ad finem desideratum...'. In the diagram itself: 'A significat hominem seu primum principium quod est chaos': it ends: 'z [significat] euacuationem'. On the first leaf a 17th cent. hand has written 'Questo libro e stato messo in questa libreria dal Sig. Canonico Teologo Francesco Piervesani in luogo di deposito che poi lo riprendera'. Written
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- 41514