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Alchemical miscellany (Latin): De experimentali scientia / Roger Bacon, and other text(s), VCQ 27

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Title	Alchemical miscellany (Latin)
Subtitle	De experimentali scientia / Roger Bacon, and other text(s), VCQ 27
Content	Contains, all in Latin: (ff. 1r-13r) Epistula de secretis operibus artis et naturae et de nullitate magiae / Roger Bacon. - (ff. 13v-50v) De experimentali scientia / Roger Bacon. - (ff. 51r-58bisr) Epistula de magnete / Pierre de Maricourt. - (ff. 58bisv-79r) Liber de proprietatibus sexaginta animalium / Rhazes. - (ff. 79v-81v) Tractatus de cogitationibus / Māshā'allāh ibn Atharī. - (ff. 81v-83v) Tractatus de pluviis et ventis / Albumasar. - (ff. 84r-91r) Tractatus de urina non visa / Guillelmus Anglicus. - (ff. 91r-99r) De crisi et diebus creticis / Abraham ibn Ezra. Excerpt?. - (ff. 99r-100v) Liber de judiciis / Abraham ibn Ezra. Excerpts?. - (ff. 100v-101v) Liber de revolutionibus nativitatum / Abraham ibn Ezra. Excerpt. - (ff. 102r-109v) Liber sigillorum / Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr). - (ff. 110r-114v) Liber de imaginibus seu de faciebus signorum / Ptolemy. - (ff. 115r-118v) De fine mundi et adventu antichristi. Excerpts. - (ff. 119r-129r) De diebus criticis. - (ff. 129r-v) De modis inveniendi horam nativitatis. - (ff. 130r-141v) Physiognomonica / Aristotle. In the translation of Bartholomew of Messina. - (ff. 142r-144r) Regimen bonum corporis. - (ff. 144v-151r) De complexionibus / Magister Alexander. - (ff. 144r, 151r-159r) Tractatus de pestilentia / Jean Jacques de Montpellier. - (ff. 159v) Vaticinium de regno Bohemiae / Magister Gallus.
Creator/other	Abū Maʿšar, Ǧaʿfar b. Muḥammad (ca786-886) Alexander (magister) Aristotle ʾAvraham ʾIbn ʿEzra (1092-1167) Bacon, Roger (ca. 1214-ca. 1294) Bartholomaeus de Messana (13th cent) Guilelmus Anglicus (fl. 1219-1230) Gallus (magister astronomus) Isrā'īlī, Sahl b. Biśr al-. Jean-Jacques de Montpellier Masa'allah Ibn-A_tari (ca730-815) Pierre (active 13th century) Ptolemaeus, Claudius (ca.100-ca.170) Rāzī, Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al- (ca854-925 of 935)
Shelfmark	VCQ 27
Subject (topical)	Reading culture artes (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 16th century
Note	Script: two hands: ff. 1r-129v and 130r-159r. Hand B is identical with the hand of VCF 25. Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Old binding with Hasenburg coat of arms kept separately. Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Description (Boeren 1975): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:101224
Reference	Boeren 1975 = P.C. Boeren, Codices Vossiani Chymici. Leiden 1975, Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), Messler 2014 = K. Messler, 'The medieval lapidary of Techel/Azareus on engraved stones and its Jewish appropriations'. In: Aleph 14 (2014)/2, p. 75-143, Moulinier-Brogi 1011 = L. Moulinier-Brogi, Guillaume l'Anglais, le frondeur de l'uroscopie médiévale (XIIIe siècle). Genève, 2011, Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716, Sturlese & 1995 = L. Sturlese & R.B. Thomson (eds.), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Opera. Epistula de magnete. Nova compositio astrolabii particularis. Pisa 1995. [See also: Bibliographie Annuelle du Moyen Age Tardif 9 (1999), nr. 3561],
Language	Latin
Country	Czech Republic
Extent	electronic resource
Published/created	German regions ; Bohemia, 16th century, first half (before 1540)
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:935650
Published (digital)	Leiden University Libraries,