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1. A collection of alchemical texts attributed to Lull, with some additional matter
- Creator:
- Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450; between 1500 and 1510]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 12
- Image Count:
- 650
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of pseudo-Lullian alchemical writings, translated from the French and Catalan originals, with a little additional matter. The codex underwent a transformation in the early 16th century when considerable new matter was added by another English hand on different, thinner paper; leaves have been inserted throughout the original codex
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Original paper: 1) an extremely primitive-looking unicorn with very short horn and long tail somewhat like Briquet 9962 and 10176; 2) a less primitive unicorn rather similar to Briquet 9985; 3) bullshead with defined eyes and nostrils and with cross above, rather like Briquet 15054. Inserted leaves: a very elegant unicorn mark, more developed than Briquet 10104; and some leaves with a gothic "P" with cinquefoil above, rather like Briquet 8809., Script: The original portion written by a single English gothic cursive hand with heavy standard abbreviation. The inserted leaves (first 4 ff. now extant, ff. 88-96, 163-169, 268-274, and 307-319 [of which f. 167 is a blank and f. 315 is a parchment leaf]) written in another gothic cursive habitually employing writing of different sizes., Original text: Headings in red, rubricated. Some pages with diagrams or drawings. The illustrations include Lullian alphabets and tables in the form of wheels, an Arbor philosophorum, a group of flasks, and a good, large drawing of a furnace. Inserted leaves: Red headings, and capitals with slight decoration., and Binding: Eighteenth century, English. Dark calf, sides paneled in blind with a roll tool of vine pattern, leafy sprays at the corners, back with six plain compartments and five raised bands, probably original parchment label on second compartment from top bordered with ink rule and lettered in ink: "RAYM. LULLII | OPERA | MANUSCRIPTA". The binding considerably repaired and some leather renewed. Original plain edges, the top blackened.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of alchemical texts attributed to Lull, with some additional matter
2. A collection of his alchemical writings, with some additional related matter by others
- Creator:
- Christopher, of Paris
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1540]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 31
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the writings of Christopher of Paris (pseudonym for a Venetian exile), including his major work, Lucidario, with its supplementary alphabet, plus three letters
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Script: Written by a single good italic hand, sometimes hasty toward the end of the codex., Rubricated, headings often in red., and Binding: Original plain parchment wrapper without ties, back with three raised bands, soiled and worn. Plain edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Christopher, of Paris.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Alphabet books, Italian letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical writings, with some additional related matter by others
3. A treatise on the astrolabe
- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 9
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork., Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas., Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read., Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11., and Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrolabes, English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A treatise on the astrolabe
4. Agreement between Bromehill priory and the town of Thetford
- Published / Created:
- 1331 July 7.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 77
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript indenture, on parchment, detailing an agreement between the Prior and canons of the Augustinian priory of Bromehill on the one part and the Mayor, burgesses, merchants and residents of the town of Thetford on the other part. The indenture concerns the rights to income from the annual Prior's fair at Bromehill, including rights to the toll, stallage and pickage fees
- Description:
- In Latin., Docketed in a sixteenth-century? hand: the indentur of Bromehyll ffeyes., Annotated in a later hand, possibly that of the Norfolk antiquary Thomas Martin., Layout: single column of 26 lines. Head of document indented., Script: secretary script., and With: Seal of the Prior and Canons of Bromehill Priory, in green wax, containing a pyramid between a star, below, and a crescent moon, above.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., Norfolk (England), and Thetford (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Augustinians and Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fairs, Manuscripts, Medieval, Markets, and Monasteries and state
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Agreement between Bromehill priory and the town of Thetford
5. Ain nuetzliche materi von mangerlay ussgeprentem wasser
- Creator:
- Schrick, Michael Puff von, ca. 1400-1473
- Published / Created:
- [1479-1499]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 885
- Image Count:
- 19
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wassern
- Description:
- In German., Script: copied by a single scribe writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Formata with some Fractura features. Red underlining and red heightening of majuscules and paragraph marks., Von den ausgebrannten Wassern by Michael Puff von Schrick. The manuscript also includes a table of body parts and diseases and the waters to be used as remedies for them., and Binding: plain parchment binding over cardboard, by P. Dusel, 1998.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Schrick, Michael Puff von, approximately 1400-1473.
- Subject (Topic):
- Distillation and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ain nuetzliche materi von mangerlay ussgeprentem wasser
6. Alchemical and humanistic miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 14
- Image Count:
- 93
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Arnold of Villanova, Epistola de sanguine humano ad magistrum Iacobum de Toleto. 3) Alchemical procedures. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Epistola ad Marcum Tullium Ciceronem. 5) Pier Paolo Vergerio, Epistola in nomine Ciceronis ad Franciscum Petrarcham. 6) Johannes Obrist, Super confectionem auri potabilis. 7) Nicolaus Claudii, Opus super aurum potabile
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe using a clear and regular gothic bookhand without strong nationalistic traits., Headings in red, rubricated., and Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboards, parchment pastedowns and guards, back gilt-lettered: "DE QVINTA ESSENTIA".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and humanistic miscellany
7. Alchemical and medical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 15
- Image Count:
- 105
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of the works of Nicolaus, mostly related to medicine. In addition the codex has interesting lists of substances in Latin and German, as well as a tract on the distillation of brandy
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Watermarks: Two batches of unidentified paper watermarked with a gothic "P," the mark plain and smaller in one batch, larger and surmounted by a trefoil in the other., Script: Neatly written in a gothic cursive hand., Large capitals in red at text divisions, sometimes with slight pen ornament, other capitals stroked red throughout, fancy ascenders on top lines transgressing the upper rules and stroked red, similar descenders occasionally below the bottom bordering line, usually not colored., and Binding: Modern three-quarter binding of light brown buckram, plain brown niger back and corners, the back with five (false?) raised bands, gilt-lettered in the second compartment from the top, ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI, and at the foot of the spine, "AB. 1460". Plain edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicolaus, Salernitanus, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Brandy, Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and medical miscellany
8. Alchemical compilation
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1790]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 20
- Image Count:
- 156
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners in early alchemy; and laboratory procedures, designed primarily to color metals and to carry out other operations with various substances. Leaves inserted and blank pages filled at later dates
- Description:
- In Latin, with later additions in Latin and German., Watermark: Outstretched hand, the fingerjoints indicated, a four-leafed petal extending from the tip of the third finger, the wrist and cuff of a sleeve also depicted, comparable to Briquet 11423., Script: The original part of the codex (ff. 1-133) written in a very fine, neat, and clear humanistic hand, and using a considerable range of alchemical symbols; the later additions (ff. 134-145) consist of Latin sections written in a neat italic and German passages in flowing cursive, perhaps both by a single German hand of the 18th century., Headings of procedures in red and blue alternating in the original section, and with some capitals stroked red; no color in the additions. No ornament., Though the whole of the manuscript has suffered some marginal water-staining since it was bound, it appears certain that other stains and damage occurred while the separated quires, or groups of them, remained unbound., and Binding: Probably original. Stiff parchment over paper boards, flaps over the fore-edge, probably dating from about 1525, conceivably later, as the manuscript contents do not appear to have been bound at the time of writing in any case; flat spine with modern inscription in brown ink, "Alchemical | Recipes", original blue edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical compilation
9. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1510]; 1775.
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 26
- Image Count:
- 105
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
- Description:
- In Latin and French., Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right., Part I: Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ripley, George, -1490?,
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
