Dell'elixir vitæ
By: di Frà Donato d'Eremita di Rocca d'Euandro dell'ord, d'Pred. libri qvattro ...
Publisher: Per Secondino Roncagliolo ...
Published: 1624
Place of publication: In Napoli
Language: ita
Number of pages: 182
Other titles: Dell'elixir vitae
Notes: Author further identified on preliminary page 7 as Fra Donato d'Eremita di Rocca d'Evandro dell'Ordine di San Domenico.

Illustrations: 20 engravings, including historiated t.p.  Each of the 19 plates, bound in at the end, consists of an engraving showing distillation or other process and requisite equipment, an engraved description below and one of the five different elaborately engraved architectural frames on the other three sides. The border on plates 2, 5, 9, 13 and 17 contains the author's name and device, giving rise to the speculation that he may have executed the illustrations.  Includes floreated initials and an array of tailpieces.  Text is set within a frame line, and within a greater frame containing in the margins printed glosses.

Includes: Tavola delle varie infirmata, secondo il linguaggio Arabica, Greco, e Latina, p. 133-166; Tavola de gli scrittori di medicina e di chirugia Arabi, Greco, Latini, e Italiani, p. 166-168; and Osservazioni intorno a' semplici della ricetta dell'elixir vitae, p. 169-181.

Errori occorsi nello stampare, p. 182.

Signatures: maltese cross,A-Hp2sI-ZAa-Bbp4sCc-Ggp2slast page missing?

Duveen, D.L.  Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica, 176

Ferchl, F.  Pictorial history of chemistry, p. 94, 97

Sloan candidate lp GCI

Library's copy has 6 pages of a handwritten text on distillation bound-in before the t.p.

Shakey signature in ink at head of t.p., another covered by decorative border pasted at foot of page.