Alchemical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany
- Contributor
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Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Porzio, Simone, 1496-1554. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1542 and later]
- Publication Place
- North Italy (perhaps Pisa?)
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Rhemigius Burgensis, Quaestio de medio demonstrationis termino. 3) Simone Porzio, De animae immortalitate quaestio. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Dialogus de coniugii claritate. 5) Alchemy and recipes, in Latin. 6) Properties of various fruits and nuts, in Italian verse, and Seasons for planting, in Italian prose. 7) Notes on logic, provenance of elements of this manuscript, and a game of divination
- Description
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In Latin, Greek, and Italian.
Watermarks: 1) crossed arrows surmounted by a six-pointed star; 2) crossed keys in a cartouche, neither identified with certainty.
Script: Written in several different italic cursive hands.
Binding: Original, north Italian. Black leather, the sides outlined in blind rules, a rectangular panel on each cover ruled in gold with a square Arab knot tool gold-stamped outside each corner of the panel, traces of holes for four thong ties on each cover, the backstrip divided into five compartments by raised bands, a gold-stamped cinquefoil in each compartment, the back and sides repaired, edges stained black. Front and back pastedowns: parchment fragments of a 12th-century Italian codex, probably a Gospel Lectionary, containing an extract from the Gospel of St. John written in Latin in a Rotunda antiquior hand. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 113 acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- 1 volume (119 leaves) : 225 mm x 162 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Note
- Leaves 114-115 excised. Leaves 58-82, 85-103 blank, not digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 32
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy
Divination
Italian poetry
Logic
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Divination > Early works to 1800
Italian poetry > 16th century
Logic > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
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
- 9878684
- Object ID (OID)
- 2007510
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