Author
Woodruff, Howard C.
Publication Date
1929
Publication Place
1929-1988. -
Subject
De mirabilibus mundi--Manuscripts--Facsimiles., De mirabilibus mundi., Alchemy., Chemistry--History., Chemistry., History., Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Type
Other
Language
ara,eng,lat
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
16 folders
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
189862404
Record ID
9934321043503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1929
Notes
Collection organized and described by Woodruff, Folder 1., Forms part of Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection. | Notes in English and Latin; photostats in Latin and Arabic. | Gift of Howard C. Woodruff, 1988.
Sample Text
Comprises a few items of correspondence, research notes, and photostats of a number of manuscripts in Latin and Arabic. These are related to Woodruff's research on and translation of the treatise De Mirabilibus Mundi from the book Secretis Mulierum (Amsterdam, 1669). Also includes Woodruff's translation of Liber Vaccae. Includes 1 letter to Woodruff from Lynn Thorndike, 2 Feb. 1931 and 1 letter to Woodruff from Fritz A. Paneth, 13 July 1936. Includes offprints of an article by Fritz Paneth on Albertus Magnus' De Mineralibus, and an article by Karl Sudhoff on "Codex Fritz Paneth."
Tür
Facsimiles (reproductions), Manuscripts., Facsimiles.
