A collection of his alchemical works

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Description

Title
A collection of his alchemical works
Creator
Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650
Published / Created
[ca. 1700]
Publication Place
England
Abstract

Manuscript on paper containing 1) Propugnaculum alchymiae, the Defence of alchymy. 2) The first (second, third, fourth) booke of universall wisedome. 3) Hercules piochymicus. 4) Myrothecium spagyricum, or A chymicall dispensatory

Description
In English.
Script: Written in a clear cursive hand with some secretary elements.
Watermarks: Paper with rather faint large watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a cartouche, surmounted by staff with cross and letter "M," not certainly identified.
Very moderate abbreviation, headlines and marginalia throughout by the scribe.
Anonymously translated into English.
Accompanied by: By the King's letters patent. A machine on a new principle. Shelved as Mellon MSS 76a.
Binding: Early eighteenth-century English binding of parchment over pasteboards, somewhat unglued and with defects, the backstrip divided into eight compartments by raised bands, the compartments gold-tooled with floral motifs; binder's endpapers watermarked with a fleur-de-lys mark, countermarked "VI," closely related to Heawood 1544, 1552, and 1554.
Provenance
Mellon MSS 57-60 (each of the works in the volume counted as a separate manuscript), acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent
ff. 283 : 338 x 230 (320 x 165) mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Mellon MS 76

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Material
paper ;
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Name)
Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650.
Subject (Topic)
Alchemy
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Subjects
Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Mellon, Paul > Ownership

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Citation
Pierre Jean Fabre, A Collection of His Alchemical Works. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
11071513
Object ID (OID)
32532601

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