Marmi, Dionigi

Collection of technical receipts for making glass, pottery, dyes, etc.; including chemical, alchemical and medical receipts. With additions by other hands. Author's holograph MS.: in Italian. Illustrated by rough pen-drawings of furnaces, etc. On the first page, dated 1636, the writer states that this MS. is a copy of an older work-about 170 or 180 years old-which was given to him at Montelupo by a 'foreigner'. This work appears to end at p. 40, after which there are the additional entries by the first scribe, and others. An entry on p. 73 is dated 1674. Produced in Montelupo.

1636-1674

1 volume 8 bl. ll. + 74 pp. + 2 ll. 4to. 231/2 X 171/2 cm. Unbound.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1932.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).