Item Details
| Call Number: | MS Ferguson 67 |
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| Images: |
![[ MS Ferguson 67 fol. 10r ]](/scans/Manuscripts/Ferguson/F67_0010rwt.jpg "[ MS Ferguson 67 fol. 10r ]")
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| Date of Creation: | Between 1499 and 1599 |
| Level of Description: | Item
Part of MS Ferguson |
| Content: | Libro intitulato Il tesoro del mondo di Pietre Antonio Neri - che tratta di Alchimia con diverse figure, non solo di forni, uasi, et instrumenti chimici, ma altre figure intorno alle miniere di tutti i metalli. 16th century. In Latin and Italian, various hands. Contemporary limp vellum binding. Ff. [1-vii] blank. fviii- xix Indice [List of contents.] f xxvii [Coloured drawing of two flasks set upon furnaces.] f xxviii [Coloured drawing of water bath apparatus.] f1 - 40 [40 coloured drawings of alchemical process.]. Pen and water-colour illustrations of alchemical symbols, alchemical processes and other preparations on ff. [xxvii, xxviii], 1-40, 53, 58, 70, 77, 79, 86-90, 92, 93, 104, 105, 135, [190]. The recipes contain also: f.98 Mirabil esperimento di frate Gregorio quale fu discipulo di Arnoldo de Villa nova ; f.141v Bianco del Duca Cosmo di Medici. With inscriptions: f.[xxvii]v Di: me prete Anto Neri Fioro: 1598 ; f.[190]r à di 12 di Gennaro 1599 Martedi ; f.[i]r J[ohn] F[erguson] Oct. 9 1879. E White |
| Physical Description: | Paper, 17 cm x 11 cm. xxxv, 182 leaves: 35 unnumbered, 188 numbered 1-188 with numbering giving 30 1/2 after 30 and lacking 117 and 2 blank unnumbered leaves after 182, and 11 leaves numbered [189-199] of which 10 are blank |
| Access: | Normal conditions |
| Language: | Latin |
| Material Type: | Document |
| Bibliography: | Kunst und Alchemie: das Geheimnis der Verwandlung, Museum Kunstpalast, herausgegeben von Sven Dupré, Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk und Beat Wismer (München, 2014), p. 87; Paul Engle, 'Depicting Alchemy: Illustrations from Antonio Neri's 1599 Manuscript' in Glass of the Alchemists (Corning Museum of Glass, New York: 2008), pp48-61 contains a detailed description of the manuscript and large colour reproductions of the following folios: 2r, 7r, 8r, 9r, 10r, 11r, 26r, 27r, 37r, 38r, 39r. |
| Exhibitions: | This manuscript has been exhibited on the following occasion: Art and Alchemy, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, 5 Apr.-10 Aug. 2014. |
| Accession Number: | 353 See details of how this material was acquired |
| Repository Code: | GB 0247 |
Names associated with this item:
| author: | Antonio Neri |
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| exhibition: | Art and Alchemy Exhibition, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, 5 April-10 August 2014. |