Das vade mecum

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Title: Das vade mecum
Creator: Harttung vom Hoff, Caspar
Published / Created: 1557.
Publication Place: Austria (Gastein)
Abstract: Holograph manuscript on parchment and paper of Caspar Harttung vom Hoff of Gastein, Das Vade mecum, a commonplace book of alchemical and medicinal materials, consisting of mostly shorter prose and verse sections, often with excellent drawings, thirty-one in all, of alchemical equipment, written in 1557, and with additions written about fifty years later
Description: In German and Latin.
Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF | VADE | MECUM | MANUSCRIPT | AUSTRIA 1557 |".
Provenance: Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. ii + 87 + ii : 105 x 85 (82-92 x 73-87) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German
Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Austria 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment and paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Harttung vom Hoff.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Drawing
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine
Subjects: Harttung vom Hoff
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Drawing > 16th century
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medicine > Early works to 1800
Austria > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation: Caspar Harttung vom Hoff, Das Vade Mecum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.