Alchemical miscellany

Description

Title: Alchemical miscellany
Alternative Title: Le veau d'or
Published / Created: [ca. 1760]
Publication Place: France,
Abstract: Manuscript on paper containing 1) Le veau d'or, an unidentified alchemy in French. 2) Le rosaire des philosophes, an unidentified text incorporating many borrowings from medieval alchemy. 3) W.R., Experimentum verae confectionis philosophorum lapidis, in Latin, partly extracted from Geber and Eirenaeus Philaletha.
Description: Binding: Original mottled calf, the flat back divided into compartments by fold rules, floral ornaments gold-stamped in the compartments, modern leather title label on backstrip, original red edges; hinges, corners, and edges repaired.
In French and Latin.
Mellon MS 17, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Script: Written in an elegant cursive sloping to the right with many words tied together by ligatures.
Watermarks: Paper of endleaves with unidentified armorial watermark and countermark "FIRAILLE (?) FIN BOURGOGNE 1742," unidentified; paper of the text with the Amsterdam arms and countermark "FIN DE LECHALLE (?)," unidentified.
Extent: ff. 142 : paper ; 313 x 195 (278 x 150) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

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Citation: Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Witten, Laurence C. and Pachella, Richard. Alchemy and the Occult: A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts from the Collection of Paul and Mary Mellon. Volume Four: Manuscripts, Mellon MS 109.