Alchemical miscellany

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Title: Alchemical miscellany
Contributor: Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Hermes, Trismegistus.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created: [ca. 1440]
Publication Place: North Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a collection of alchemical texts, including works by Rasis, Roger Bacon, and Hermes. Though the Bacon text and one other are early practical alchemies, the contents are mainly speculative in character
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by one scribe in a very neat and regular prehumanistic hand.
Book and chapter headings in red, rubrication, capitals stroked yellow, larger initials painted in red or blue with tracery ornament in the contrasting color (all decoration probably by the scribe; red headings in the scribe's hand, all other red decoration with ink of apparently identical composition).
Binding: Modern. Parchment, cut from a leaf of a very large manuscript, probably a lectionary, written in a Rotunda antiquior hand, Italian, 12th century; writing on outer surface erased, printed paper label on backstrip.
Provenance: Denis Duveen, acquired from Joseph Martini, 1938; Mellon MS 34, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. iii + 101 + iii : 208 x 142 (126 x 190) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944 > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation: Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.