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Alchemical and medical miscellany

Published / Created:
[ca. 1675]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 67
Image Count:
382
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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:
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., and Binding: Modern stiff parchment over boards, spine with title written horizontally in black ink: "Traites d' Alchimie," and at base: "1625."
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Medicine, and Early works
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and medical miscellany

2.
Alchemical miscellany

Published / Created:
[ca. 1660]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 63
Image Count:
160
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a substantial sixteenth-century English alchemy attributed in the text to a certain Sir John Barkly, and some additional matter said to have been derived from conversation with him. Also containing abbreviated works by Samuel Norton, as well as a varitey of other texts, some of them not at all identified, others extracted from various English and continental sources noted in the description, including a discourse of the minerall stone, medical recipes, and an abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers
Description:
In English., Script: Written by one English hand writing a legible cursive with some secretary forms, sloping to the right., Watermarks: Paper with watermark of a hunting horn in a cartouche very like Churchill 315 (in use 1623-1695), but without countermark, not identified., and Binding: Modern binding of marbled boards, polished calf back with title label, original uncut edges.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, and Medicine
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany

3.
Das vade mecum

Creator:
Harttung vom Hoff, Caspar
Published / Created:
1557.
Call Number:
Mellon MS 38
Image Count:
95
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph manuscript on parchment and paper of Caspar Harttung vom Hoff of Gastein, Das Vade mecum, a commonplace book of alchemical and medicinal materials, consisting of mostly shorter prose and verse sections, often with excellent drawings, thirty-one in all, of alchemical equipment, written in 1557, and with additions written about fifty years later
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF | VADE | MECUM | MANUSCRIPT | AUSTRIA 1557 |".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Harttung vom Hoff.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Drawing, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das vade mecum

4.
Medical and alchemical miscellany

Published / Created:
[ca. 1450-1475]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 61
Image Count:
189
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin
Description:
In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. and Binding: contemporary limp vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Science
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany

5.
Medical vade mecum

Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1499.
Call Number:
Manuscript 59 vault
Image Count:
212
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a description of several alchemical and medical ingredients and processes. Includes a table of contents, using alchemical symbols, on f. 1: Aurum potabile (ff. 1-4), Lapis animalis (ff. 4-14), Lapis Vegetabilis (ff. 14-19), Lapis mineralis (ff. 19-26), Aurum potabile (ff. 26-30), Tinctura cum mercurio (ff. 30-33), Tinctura magna (ff. 33-36), Das war Auz[] pota[]le (ff. 36-41), Testamentum Raimundi Lulii (ff. 41-58), [mercuriis?] corporibus, Sequitur solutiones, Tinctura animalis, Tinctura albedinis (ff. 77-80), Coagulatio Mercurii (ff. 80-82), De oro argento (ff. 82-83), Verus elixir (ff. 83-86), Secreta Antionii (ff. 86-92), Proiectio (ff. 92-99).
Description:
In Latin and German., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: headings in red ink. Spare rubrication., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: red vellum binding., and Foliation in later hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Materia medica, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical vade mecum