LULLUS RAIMUNDUS attributed to De secreto septem instrumento

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LULLUS, RAIMUNDUS, attributed to. De secreto septem instrumentorum generalium artis magne. [caption title]. manuscript in latin with occasional Spanish, written in brown ink in (more than one?) informal cursive hand on laid paper. with three hand-drawn working volvelles; few crude illustrations (of distillation apparatus?); several tables. 185 leaves, preceded by contemporary engraving of votive figure of the Virgin and Child. 154x115 mm, contemporary limp vellum with thong ties; some passages slightly faded, worming in gutters in middle of volume slightly affecting text, one gathering bound upside down. late 17th-early 18th century

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Pseudo-Lullian treatise on logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy, and alchemy. Drawing on the so-called Art, or universal system of knowledge, of the Catalan polymath and mystic Ramón Llull (circa 1232-1316), the manuscript explicitly names him as the author in each section, but neither the divisional titles nor the opening lines correspond to anything in the Ramón Llull Database. The section on astronomy is dated "in civitate parisiensi Anno Domini MCCXCVIJ [i. e., MDCXCVII?]" at end.