Alchemical and medical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical and medical miscellany
- Contributor
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Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus.
Serres, Olivier de, 1539-1619.
Ranchin, François, 1564-1641.
Dubois, Jacques, 1478-1555.
Hollandus, Johan Isaäc, active 15th century.
Villars, abbé de 1635-1673. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1675]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of a variety of alchemical writings, partly with considerable literary pretension, including two at the beginning largely or wholly in verse. Including several works ascribed to Jean Saunier and Johann Isaac, as well as two anonymous verse alchemies at the beginning, of which the second has not been identified. Also including a group of texts extracted from ancient and Renaissance writers concerning beekeeping and the medicinal properties of honey
- Description
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In French, Italian, and Latin.
Script: Written by a single copyist in a French secretarial cursive.
Watermarks: Paper of two batches with possibly related watermarks: a squarish glove surmounted by a short-stemmed, six-petaled flower; and an outstretched palm surmounted by a coronet.
In pale brown ink, with additions in darker ink by an eighteenth-century hand. Sparse, standard abbreviation, some correction by the original copyist and notes by the later hand.
With additions, ca. 1730.
Binding: Modern stiff parchment over boards, spine with title written horizontally in black ink: "Traites d' Alchimie," and at base: "1625." - Provenance
- Mellon MS 92, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. 189 : 167 x 135 (122 x 113) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 67
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Early works to 1800
- Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy
Medicine
Early works - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Early works
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Alchemical and Medical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 11055226
- Object ID (OID)
- 33265868
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