tig00112000

Text-inc Id:

tig00112000

Bod-inc Id:

G-052

Headings:

Geber Summa perfectionis magisterii.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Geber [pseudo-; Paulus de Tarento]: Summa perfectionis magisterii (chs 1-91). William R. Newman, The ‘Summa perfectionis' of Pseudo-Geber: A Critical Edition, Translation and Study, Collection de travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, 35 (Leiden, 1991), 249-632. See Thorndike–Kibre 1576. On the authorship see Newman 58-103.
2. [m7v] Geber [pseudo-; Paulus de Tarento]: ‘Liber trium verborum' (chs 92-9). Incipit: ‘[L]apis iste de quo sit hoc opus habet in se omnes colores . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 810.
3. [n3v] Alexander Magnus [pseudo-]: Epistola ‘Quidam breviter dicunt.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uidam breuiter dicunt quod ars deriuata est ex creatione . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1244.
4. [n8v] [Parabola super lapide philosophorum.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uidam rex uolens alios potentes supererare preparauit . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1246.
5. [o2v] Geber [pseudo-(?); Paulus de Tarento]: Liber inuestigationis magisterii. Incipit: ‘[I]nuestigationem huius nobilis scientie ex continua et frequenti . . .’ See Newman 74-7, also Thorndike–Kibre 776.
6. [p3v] Geber [pseudo-; Paulus de Tarento: De opere lapidis.] Incipit: ‘[E]st fons in limis cuius anguis latet in imis | Euolat in primis nisi clauseris undique rimis'; 24 hexameters. See Thorndike–Kibre 509 and Walther, Initia, 5670.
7. [p4r] Elia Da Cortona(?): [Alchemical verse.] Incipit: ‘Spiritum uolantem capite | et in radium solis traite | ut fixetur debite | et fixum fiat uolatile'; 8 strophes each of 4 rythmic and rhymed verses. Edited by Mario Mazzoni, Sonetti alchemici di Cecco d'Ascoli e frate Elia (Rome, 1955), 38-9, with a reference to Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabecchiano II–III 308, fol. 39; see Walther, Initia, 18525a.
8. [p4v] Elia Da Cortona(?): [Alchemical verse.] Incipit: ‘Soluete li corpi in acqua questo dico | uoi che uolete fare sole o iuna'; a sonnet. Text resembling that edited by Mazzoni, Sonetti alchemici, 36-7, and the following poem ascribed to Elia; GW ascribes this poem to Cecco d'Ascoli; see note on following poem.
9. [p4v] Cecco D'Ascoli: [Alchemical verse.] Incipit: ‘Chi soluere non sa ne assoctigliare | corpo non tocchi ne argento uiuo'; sonnet. Edited by Mazzoni, Sonetti alchemici, 22, referring to Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 946; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabecchiano II–III 308; and to this edition; the sonnet is preceded by ‘Cicco de Ascoli'; GW takes this as relating to the preceding item; see also Mazzoni, 36, where the preceding item is ascribed to frate Elia.
10. [p5r] Elia [Da Cortona: Alchemical verse.] Incipit: ‘Soluete li corpi in acqua ad tucti dico | uoi che cercate fare sole e luna'; 17 lines of verse. Text resembling that edited by Mazzoni, Sonetti alchemici, 36-7, and the preceding poem ascribed to Elia; preceded by ‘Fratre Helia.’
11. [p5r] Elia [Da Cortona: Alchemical verse.] Incipit: ‘[E]l mi dilecta de dire breue mente | tucti secreti de larte felice.’ Preceded by ‘El uostro fratre Elia'; poem made up of several stanzas of a sonnet form.

Imprint:

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1486-90]. 4°. As dated by BSB‑Ink; GW dates [c.1486-8], IGI [c.1500], and Sheppard [1485-90].

Collation:

[a–o⁸ p¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00112000 GW 10566; HC *7505; Goff G‑112; BMC IV 124; Pr 3942; BSB‑Ink G‑49; IGI 4185; Sheppard 3096. LCN: 14439731

Copies:

1. G-052(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Marsilius Ficinus, De triplici vita. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1501. Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment; badly warped. Size: 208 × 145 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 203 × 137 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations in black ink. On [a2r] in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, ‘Questio [] 3. Egidii est vtrum homo per artem possit facere . . .' Signatures are supplied in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand in black ink. Provenance: Purchased ‘for a trifle from a bookseller in Rome' by Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932); book-plate. Bequeathed in either 1912 or 1913: Bodleian stamp on [a2v], dated 3 June 1913. SHELFMARK: Toynbee 650(2).