Alchemical miscellany

Description

Title: Alchemical miscellany
Contributor: Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365.
Published / Created: [ca. 1510]; 1775.
Publication Place: France (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
Description: In Latin and French.
Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right.
Part I: Headings in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
Provenance: Denis Duveen; Mellon MSS 112 and 114, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: i + 35 + 12 + i leaves: 290 x 200 (200 x 120) mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
French

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ripley, George, -1490?,
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Ripley, George, -1490?

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Citation: Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.