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1. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1435]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 6
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a private compilation. The two well known works entered into the codex deal with magical properties ascribed to certain gems and the supernatural significance of the carving of stones. Together with these formal texts are found other extremely varied materials: procedures for restoring wine which has suffered various accidents, for making glass of different colors, for the early ripening of grapes, for making an ass bray loudly, for frightening dogs, and so forth
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Watermark: unidentified flower-petal., Script: Probably written by a single hand, employing a Gothico antiqua on ff. 1-11r, with a less formal treatment of the same elsewhere, and more cursive writing for the passages in Italian; the writing relatively careful at the beginning, progressively less so until the end., Red ink for most headings, red capitals and paragraph marks, except on f. 11v-12r and 16v-17r, which are without color., Lower margins affected by damp throughout and partly repaired with blank paper., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper boards, more recent gilt-stamped label on backstrip.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Magic, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
2. Musaeum hermeticum reformatum
- Creator:
- Hellmerich, Georg
- Published / Created:
- 1692.
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 70
- Image Count:
- 188
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) containing 1) Basilius Valentinus, Porta sophica, sive duodecim claves. 2) Marcellus Palingenius, Alchemical invocation. 3) George Ripley, Liber duodecim portarum, the prologue only. 4) Hermes, Tabula smaragdina. 5) Basilius Valentinus, Practica cum duodecim clavibus. 6) Lambsprinck, De lapide philosophico libellus. 7) Michael Maier, and others, Emblematical alchemical paintings, without text. 8) Riginio Danielli, Canzone
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Painstakingly but not very skillfully written by a single hand imitating different typefaces., In brown ink with some red headings and capitals., and Binding: Probably original binding of plain brown calf, back with four raised bands, remains of early paper title label at top of backstrip on which the compiler's name is written partly defectively, "Gregori ... [sic] ... llmri ..." Badly wormed and repaired in modern times, with modern leather title label on backstrip.
- Subject (Name):
- Hellmerich, Georg.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Musaeum hermeticum reformatum
3. [Alchemical miscellany]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1625]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 52
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- 7 leaves of unfoliated binder's blanks inserted at both beginning and end., Armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827)., ff. 1-12 foliated in ink in a hand later than the manuscript, the remaining leaves with modern pencil foliation., ff. 17 apparently a contemporary insertion., and On parchment binder's blanks.
- Subject (Name):
- Duveen, Denis I., bookplate and North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Alchemical miscellany]