Liber mineralium. Books I and II only and one page of Book III. (There are five Books comprising the published original). Written in a small neat humanistic hand, 28 lines to a page. Fol. 1 (Beginning of Book I) BEATI ALBERTI MAGNI GERMANICI PHILOSOPHI /CELEBERRIMI MINERALIVM LIBER INCIPIT ET/PRIMO DE LAPIDIBVS LIBER PRIMVS FOELICITER [D]E COMMIXTIONE et coagulatione similiter autem et conge/latione et liquefactione ... to fol. 39 (End of Book II) ... sed quedam portio/nes de libro excepte deuenerunt. Fol. 39v (Beginning of Book III) TEMPVS autem est nunc [consequenter] de metallorum naturis inquirere post la/pidum inuestigationem... line 28 ... in communi querentes quicumque de natura metallorum uidebuntur esse inquirenda Libro complebimus. Only one page of text from book three is in this manuscript.
1 volume 2 ll. + 39 ll. folio. 30 x 20 1/2 cm. 18th cent. limp vellum covers. Verso of last leaf slightly rubbed, some headings and text badly faded.
Alchemy; Science; Lapidaries (Medieval literature); Mineralogy
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Format: Archive, Institution: n/a, Identifier: b19695512, Digicode: digwms, Collection code: MS.14
Book III (Liber Tertius). (Only one page from this book)