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1. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 36
- Image Count:
- 560
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a miscellany of alchemical texts including corrupt copies (which are typical of the compiler) of traditional Latin alchemies with practical procedures and vernacular poems on alchemy. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 35.
- Description:
- In Latin, Italian, and Spanish., Script: Written by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless., Extensive series of small ink drawings of alchemical vessels and equipment on the front flyleaves, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, with similar equipment, as well as a "Bain-Marie" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled., and Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing and earlier folding visible) from a document; plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Lapis philosophalis". Loose in cover and badly wormed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Drawing, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
2. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 35
- Image Count:
- 526
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts from various alchemical and medical writers. Includes John of Rupescissa, Liber de confectione veri lapidis; and Arnold of Villanova, De perfectione operis alkimie. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 36.
- Description:
- In Latin, Italian, and Spanish., Script: Written by one or perhaps two hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless., and Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing visible) from a document, plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Medicina | astrologia." Loose in cover and wormed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
3. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1542 and later]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 32
- Image Count:
- 155
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Rhemigius Burgensis, Quaestio de medio demonstrationis termino. 3) Simone Porzio, De animae immortalitate quaestio. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Dialogus de coniugii claritate. 5) Alchemy and recipes, in Latin. 6) Properties of various fruits and nuts, in Italian verse, and Seasons for planting, in Italian prose. 7) Notes on logic, provenance of elements of this manuscript, and a game of divination
- Description:
- In Latin, Greek, and Italian., Watermarks: 1) crossed arrows surmounted by a six-pointed star; 2) crossed keys in a cartouche, neither identified with certainty., Script: Written in several different italic cursive hands., and Binding: Original, north Italian. Black leather, the sides outlined in blind rules, a rectangular panel on each cover ruled in gold with a square Arab knot tool gold-stamped outside each corner of the panel, traces of holes for four thong ties on each cover, the backstrip divided into five compartments by raised bands, a gold-stamped cinquefoil in each compartment, the back and sides repaired, edges stained black. Front and back pastedowns: parchment fragments of a 12th-century Italian codex, probably a Gospel Lectionary, containing an extract from the Gospel of St. John written in Latin in a Rotunda antiquior hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Divination, Italian poetry, Logic, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
4. Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
- Creator:
- Bettini, Michele
- Published / Created:
- [between 1563 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 845
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (16th century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence., No decoration., Michele Bettini, an unrecorded author, was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Binding: contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bettini, Michele.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
5. Three poems
- Creator:
- Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 352
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (one leaf) of Three poems. MS 352, f. 88 from a larger volume, may be Benivieni's working copy, since words and verses have been added and deleted throughout; all three columns on both recto and verso have been struck out. The three poems were once thought to be the autograph works of Lorenzo de' Medici
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in a vigorous notarial script., Leaf is mutilated and has been repaired extensively., and Boxed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Three poems
