Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum

Description

Title: Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum
Published / Created: [ca. 1700]
Publication Place: Germany (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment containing emblematical drawings related to horology and astrology, and astrological tables, each section opening with an elaborate title page
Description: In Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.
Script: Written epigraphically and always with great calligraphic skill in a variety of styles by a single practiced hand, possibly the same which executed the drawings.
Each page of the manuscript has a pen-drawn border on the recto side, containing an emblematical drawing, or complex calendrical or horological drawing, executed in pen and heightened with gold and silver.
Binding: Original calf binding, now rather deteriorated, the sides very elaborately gold-tooled in a multiple rectangle pattern, the large innermost rectangle with a series of circles containing floral ornaments, similar half-circles at the edges, the back in compartments with floral decoration; marbled endpapers, plain edges.
Provenance: Mellon MS 144, acquired from Lucien Goldschmidt (bookseller), New York, in 1954. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. 99 : 340 x 433 (240 x 315) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
Hebrew
Greek, Modern (1453- )

Genre: Early works to 1800
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Horology
Astrology
Subjects: Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Horology > Early works to 1800
Astrology > Early works to 1800
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.