Novum lumen chymicum and Parabola

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Title: Novum lumen chymicum and Parabola
Creator: Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636
Published / Created: [ca. 1610]
Publication Place: Southern Germany or Austria (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper containing 1) Michael Sendivogius, Novum lumen chymicum & Parabola, translated into German. 2) De lapide philosophico et eius praeparatione, in German. 3) Alchemical recipes, in German, beginning with a brief description of alchemical implements and vessels in Latin. 4) Via veritatis, in German
Description: In German and Latin.
Script: Written in a rather upright Fraktur, with Latin words and passages in italic cursive.
Six pen-drawn illustrations on ff. 107v-108v.
Watermark: an armorial shield at margins and cut, not identified.
Binding: Original limp parchment fashioned from a leaf taken from a French (?) manuscript, ca. 1300, containing canon law fragments written in two columns in a formal Littera parisiensis, with glossae in a less formal hand, with section marks in red and blue, rather worn; pale red edges. Preserved in a modern marbled board solander case with tan oasis back by Carolyn Horton.
Provenance: Mellon MS 120, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. 156 : 124 x 74 (97 x 70) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German

Genre: Early works to 1800
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Natural history
Pre-Linnaen works
German literature
Subjects: Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Natural history > Pre-Linnaen works
German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation: Michael Sendivogius, Novum Lumen Chymicum and Parabola. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.