Alchemical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany
- Contributor
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Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, active 7th century. - Published / Created
- 1536; [ca. 1520]
- Publication Place
- Germany (Usedom, Pomerania)
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type
- Description
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In Latin and German, partly in cipher.
Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124.
Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia.
Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen, acquired from H. P. Kraus, Inc. (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 8, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. i + 132 + iii : 210 x 155 (180 x 140) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 27
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Germany 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
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine, Medieval - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medicine, Medieval
Germany > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878477
- Object ID (OID)
- 2056670
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