Figurae instrumentales Testamenti

Description

Title: Figurae instrumentales Testamenti
Published / Created: [ca. 1400 and ca. 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 1) Ps.-Raymundus Lullus, Figurae instrumentales Testamenti: Diagrams and tables related to the Testamentum, a treatise of the Lullian alchemical corpus. 2) Recipes for obtaining the philosophical stone and the magisterium
Description: In Latin.
Script: Art. 1 is written by one scribe in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, with cursive x and cursive final s. Art. 2 was added by two scribes writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
The tables and diagrams are traced in brown or red ink. Except in the tables there is no ruling for the text. The text is written in brown and red ink.
The parchment is stained and worn due to folding and manipulation.
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten in 1982 on the Mellon Fund.
Extent: ff. 12 : 245 x 170 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Figurae Instrumentales Testamenti. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.