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Alternative title

Raymundi Lulli Quaedam

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

pp. 702 numbered

Date created

[ca. 1475-1525]

Language

Latin, English

Material

Paper

Layout

mostly about 38 lines to a page

Height (mm)

297

Width (mm)

205

Writing

in a very ugly hand, probably German

Foliation

ff. i-ii + pp. 1-306 + 306a-307a + 307-350 + 350a-351a + 351-436 + 436a-437a + 437-440 + 440a-441a + 441-684 + 684a + 685a + 685-702 + ff. iii-iv

Research

On Raymund Lull's works see Histoire Littéraire XXIX by Littré

Summary

CCCC MS 112 is a manuscript that reflects Parker's interest in alchemy, a subject of great interest to many of his contemporaries. The codex, written in the second half of the fifteenth century, contains a number of texts attributed to Ramón Lull (1232?-1315), though in practice many of these cannot be shown to have been written by him. It is illustrated by large drawings greater and smaller than half-page of alchemical instruments and furnaces. Similar but much smaller drawings occur in some margins. It is not known how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection.

Contents

Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Compendium animae transmutationis metallorum juxta Anglicanum exemplar -- Additamentum libro quintae essentiae -- Testamentum -- Practica super lapide philosophico -- Codicillus -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia -- Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Liber lapidarii -- Epistola accurtationis -- Practica sermocinalis -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (Dialogus cum monacho. Liber III)

Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Compendium animae transmutationis metallorum juxta Anglicanum exemplar -- Additamentum libro quintae essentiae -- Testamentum -- Practica super lapide philosophico -- Codicillus -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia -- Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Liber lapidarii -- Epistola accurtationis -- Practica sermocinalis -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (Dialogus cum monacho. Liber III)

M.R. James Date

xv late or xvi early

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rx013hs1336/MS_112.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gs436pd9420/112.pdf

Contains

• pseudo-Ramón Lull, Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum. 1-21

  Nasmith

  Anima artis transmutatoriae. 1-21

  Author

  pseudo-Ramón Lull

  Incipit

  (1) Fulgeat regis diadema Roberti

  Note

  Both items 1 and 2 have rough diagrams

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Compendium animae transmutationis metallorum juxta Anglicanum exemplar. 22-38

  Nasmith

  Idem tractatus juxta Anglicanum exemplar. 22-38

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Incipit

  (22) Fulgeat regis diadema Roberti

  Note

  Both items 1 and 2 have rough diagrams
  p. 38 blank

• Additamentum libro quintae essentiae. 39-84

  Nasmith

  Additamentum libro quintae essentiae de disputatione inter Monaldum monachum cum Reymundo magno, anno Christi 1319. 39-84

  Note

  Ad finem, Finitur hic quantum habere potui de libro quintae essentiae transcriptum non parvis expensis de bibliotheca ... [blank] ... episcopi ... [blank] ... de regno Portingaliae michi et alteri amico meo inde transmissum

  Incipit

  (39) Cumque Reymundus libro super quo rogatus fuerat

  Note

  After transmissum the writer adds
  (46) Et subsequenter addo terciam et quartam distinctionem prout reperi eas in Anglia sub forma qua tradebantur regi Eduuardo nec cuiquam videatur sic me fecisse superfluum quoniam una[m] do aperit alteram et inter eas quantum (?) ad multa est clariositas immo excedencia mutua. deo gracias. (Raymundus Lully claudens pia dogmata nulli)
  pp. 47-48 blank, 49 has diagram. 50-84 blank

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Testamentum. 85-260

  Nasmith

  Testamentum Raymundi. 85-260

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Incipit

  (85) Deus qui gloriose omnipotens existis

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (252) in omnibus suis elementis

  Rubric

  (252) Et sic finitur prima pars testamenti magni Raymundi litteratissimi viri qui pro confessionis et predicationis nominis Ihesu Christi glorioso per Saracenos meruit coronari martirio et sepulchrum eius est in insula maioricarum

  Note

  pp. 253-259 blank
  A table on p. 260

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Practica super lapide philosophico. 261-372

  Nasmith

  Practica Raymundi sive secunda pars testamenti. 261-372

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Incipit

  (261) Alkimia est una pars celata philosophie

  Note

  After p. 306 a slip of vellum (pp. 306a-307a)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (358) cum cantelena que sequitur

  Rubric

  (358) Explicit Testamentum

  Incipit

  (358) Translatum fuit presens testamentum etc.

  Note

  (360) Cantilena

  Incipit

  (360) Amor nos facit etc.

  Note

  Afforismi (40)

  Incipit

  (363) Anima philosophorum est lapis tactu rarus

  Note

  Verses

  Incipit

  (366) Due mitamend' etc.

  Rubric

  (367) Alphabetum theorice

  Incipit

  (367) A significat deum

  Note

  followed by other alphabets and tables

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Codicillus. 373-460

  Nasmith

  Codicillus sive vade mecum. 373-460

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Incipit

  (373) Deus in virtute trinitatis que unitas

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (456) tamen intelligas magisterium

  Note

  457-460 blank

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia. 461-568

  Nasmith

  Liber quintae essentiae sive de metallorum transmutatione cum prologo Monaldi consolatorio. 461-568

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Note

  Prologue

  Incipit

  (461) Contristatus erat vehementer Reymundus

  Note

  Text

  Incipit

  (462) Deus cum tue sublimis bonitas

  Note

  pp. 557-558 on vellum with a volvel in seven layers

• pseudo-Ramón Lull, Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum. 569-582

  Nasmith

  Lapidarium sive anima artis transmutatoriae. 569-582

  Author

  pseudo-Ramón Lull

  Note

  A defective copy of item 1

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Liber lapidarii. 582-596

  Nasmith

  Opus margaritarum et lapidum pretiosorum. 582-596

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Incipit

  (582) Deus in virtute trinitatis sancte incipio tractare

• pseudo-Ramón Lull, Epistola accurtationis. 597-602

  Nasmith

  Epistola accurtationis lapidis philosophorum ad regem Robertum. 597-602

  Author

  pseudo-Ramón Lull

  Incipit

  (597) Fili Palagius (?) generat ... per artem

• Practica sermocinalis. 603-662

  Nasmith

  Practica sermocinalis, quae dicitur ars brevis seu practica operis minoris. 603-662

  Incipit

  (603) Diximus de modo et doctrina

• Ramón Lull (attrib.), Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (Dialogus cum monacho. Liber III). 663-702

  Nasmith

  Tractatus arboris philosophicalis. 663-702

  Author

  Ramón Lull (attrib.)

  Incipit

  (663) Deus cum tua magnitudine

  Note

  pp. 685-686 on vellum with two diagrams
  Ends

  Explicit

  (699) artista maximus in opere alkimico

  Rubric

  (699) Explicit liber

  Note

  pp. 701, 702 smaller: in English: a leaf of an alchemical book written in cent. xvi

TJames

392

Stanley

Misc. Z

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 112

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