Alchemical and cabbalistic miscellany

Description

Title: Alchemical and cabbalistic miscellany
Published / Created: 1849
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper containing 1) J. G. Toeltius, Coelum reseratum chymicum, translated into English by F.H. (?), together with fifty-four Secret Keys to the understanding of the work. 2) Concerning divine magic, or Cabbalistic mysteries, an anonymous translation from a German original
Description: In English.
Script: Written probably by a single hand in a clear copper-plate cursive larger and less formal from the beginning through p. 226, the remainder in a smaller, neater version of the same hand.
Watermarks: On machine-made preruled paper with watermark "HAGAR & Co 1824." not recorded in the literature consulted.
Illustrations in the text; some illustrations on inserted pieces of tracing paper, copied from an unidentified source and intended for insertion into the manuscript but left unfinished.
Binding: Rebound about 1900 in dark blue buckram with leather title label gold-stamped "COELUM RESERATUM CHYMICUM.," edges mottled red, with binder's ticket of George Redway, 15 York St., Covent Garden, London, on first pastedown.
Provenance: Mellon MS 125 acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. 168 : 361 x 226 (355 x 185) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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