Alchemical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany
- Contributor
-
Christopher, of Paris, active 15th century.
Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1505]
- Publication Place
- North Italy (Venice?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of a group of shorter works by Christopher of Paris (pseudonym), probably a Venetian alchemist. With John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. Also includes recipes for making blue pigments and a procedure for etching a design on an iron surface
- Description
-
In Italian and Latin.
Watermarks: 1) anchor with ring atop the shank, all within a circle; 2) plain and ill-drawn anchor with thick flukes, the top of the shank forming a small, neat cross with the short stock. Both probably Italian papers, not directly comparable to the varieties illustrated by Briquet.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a late humanistic cursive hand sloping slightly to the right.
No headlines, headings and some capitals in pale red.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown calf, the covers blind-ruled to a rectangular pattern, the large center rectangle diagonally ruled to a lozenge pattern, a single quatrefoil impressed in blind in each of the rectangles and lozenges so formed, edges partly renewed and rebacked in the style of the period of the binding with compartments formed by three double raised bands, a gold stamped title label in the second compartment from top reading: "CHRISTOPHE | DE PARIS | - | RUPESCISSA | MANUSCRIPTS | ITALY | 15TH C". The endpapers are modern insertions, though of old paper, and the binding, while of the period of the manuscript, probably had no original connection with this codex. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 45, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- 1 volume (i + 91 + i leaves) : 212 x 150 (ca. 155 x 98) mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 24
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
-
Alchemy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Pigments - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Pigments > Early works to 1800
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Achemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878420
- Object ID (OID)
- 10676222
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