Alchemical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1575]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
-
Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English
- Description
-
In Latin and English.
Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right.
Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 43, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. i + 7 + i : 205 x 150 (ca. 182 x 185) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 43
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance England 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
-
Alchemy
English poetry
Formulas, recipes, etc
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
-
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700
Formulas, recipes, etc
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9879771
- Object ID (OID)
- 14716553
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