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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 74
- Image Count:
- 492
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment of a version in French of the German text, Das Buch von der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, with close copies of the illuminations in two fifteenth-century manuscripts. Contains illustrations that mix Christian symbolism, especially the Passion of Christ, with alchemical symbolism, and also depict some apparatus
- Description:
- In French., Script: Calligraphically written in brown ink in a very clear, large cursive hand., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with large fleur-de-lys with a cartouche, surmounted by a crown, the letter "W" below, perhaps identical to Heawood 1845., With illustrations added about 1875., and Binding: Nineteenth-century French citron polished calf, sides bordered with triple gold rules, gold-stamped fleurons at the corners, back in compartments gold-stamped with small tools, red morocco title label, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, the latter glued to parchment flyleaves which appear to have come from an earlier binding of this volume; mottled edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Religious aspects, Christianity, and Trinity
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Livre de la tres sainte trinite