Alchemical miscellany.
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany.
- Creator
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Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Freelove, Robert
Jean, de Meun, d. 1305?
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created
- [ca. 1550]
- Publication Place
- England (London?),
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
- Description
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Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case.
No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing.
Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65.
Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550. - Extent
- ff. 128 : paper ; 191 x 145 (135-160 x 90-115) mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 33
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Annotations
Manuscripts, Renaissance--England--16th century
Marginalia
Notes - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy--Early works to 1800
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
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Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Mellon MS 33.
Witten, Laurence C. and Pachella, Richard. Alchemy and the Occult: A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts from the Collection of Paul and Mary Mellon. Volume Three: Manuscripts,
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878717
- Object ID (OID)
- 14716582
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell033.htm
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