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Aurea dicta : illuminated manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0178
Abstract

This volume, entitled Aurea Dicta (Latin, “Golden Words”), is an illuminated manuscript containing a collection of hymns and poems with illustrations throughout. It was bound by Oldach Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1914.

Dates: 1914

Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0014
Abstract

This unattributed fifteenth-century manuscript copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's alchemical medical textDe consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omniumcomprises 52 leaves on parchment, likely the work of more than one scribe.

Dates: 1400-1499