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1. 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
2. Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori: artist's manual
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1440]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 986
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The prophecies on the pope are copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of the Easter table and Lunar tables are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The final text is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The Easter and Lunar tables are traced in black ink., The manuscript contains recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Medieval, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori: artist's manual
3. Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 9
- Image Count:
- 671
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes
- Description:
- In Latin, Czech, German, transliterated Arabic, and Polish., Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., and Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs, Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
4. Recipes for scribes and painters and a few other recipes
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 985
- Image Count:
- 30
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Latin recipes copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Italian recipes (Hand B) are in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation "Yhesus"., and Binding: paper binding, 20th century. On the front board a small parchment label with the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r and 12r).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recipes for scribes and painters and a few other recipes
