Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei

Description

Title: Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei
Creator: Apollonius, of Tyana
Contributor: Apollonius, of Tyana.
Published / Created: [ca. 1225]
Publication Place: France (or North Italy?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names
Description: In Latin.
Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands.
Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v.
Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back.
Provenance: Mellon MS 142, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. 18 : 259 x 165 (203 x 133) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Mellon MS 1
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Incantations
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Incantations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 13th century
Italy > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation: Apollonius (Tyanensis?), Ars Notoria, Sive Flores Aurei. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.