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- 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
