Das buch der weissheit zum langen leben und vollkommenen reichthum
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Description
- Title
- Das buch der weissheit zum langen leben und vollkommenen reichthum
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1790]
- Publication Place
- Germany
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text containing an excellent copy of the poem beginning "Unter den sieben Planeten bin ich Sol genannt ..." with associated prose commentaries, as first seen in MS 94. Decorated with a fine frontispiece and elegant head- and tailpieces all drawn in a copperplate style, as well as a series of pen-and-wash drawings depicting alchemical processes emblematically within circles, often surmounted by crosses
- Description
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In German and Latin.
Script: Calligraphically written in brown inks in a delicate Fraktur with some words or passages in cursive and with title pages in red and brown in elaborate gothic scripts.
Watermarks: Written throughout on paper with a "PRO PATRIA" watermark, similar to Heawood 3696-3718, but countermarked with letters "CMH" (? in folds and uncertain).
Binding: Original or contemporary binding of brown calf, the sides with a blind-impressed border of small tools, partly covered by a single gold rule, the back in six compartments decorated with gold-stamped small tools in a floral pattern, the second compartment from the top stamped directly with "BUCH DER WEISH" and the next compartment below with "MS." Edges peckled red over gilding. - Provenance
- Mellon MS 50, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. 133 : 195 x 150 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Note
- Pages 203-246 blank, not digitized.
- Language
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German
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 132
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Early works to 1800
- Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy
German poetry - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
German poetry > 18th century
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
- Das Buch der Weissheit zum langen Leben und vollkommenen Reichthum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11100950
- Object ID (OID)
- 32306102
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