Alchemical miscellany.

Description

Title: Alchemical miscellany.
Contributor: Artephius.
Müller, Philipp, b. 1585.
Published / Created: [between 1650 and 1710]
Publication Place: Italy (?),
Abstract: Manuscript on paper containing 1) A short group of alchemical recipes. 2) Fasciculus chimicus, a title page and dedication dated 1620, possibly from a printed book, not clearly related to the following matter. 3) Sixty-five pen and watercolor emblematical drawings of alchemical processes occurring in flasks, with brief captions. 4) Artephius, Liber secretus. 5) Philipp Muller, De mercurio. 6) Christophorus Van(n), Notes on processes, one dated Rome, 1702.
Description: Binding: Original binding of parchment over pasteboards, flaps at the fore-edges, six thongs sewn through hinges, flat back with early lettering in ink "Artefius [flourish]," speckled edges; the binding resembles that of MS 61 and is of almost identical height.
Contains a series of drawings with symbolic depictions of alchemical processes taking place within flasks, originally extending to sixty-five, of which a few are now wanting. The series closes with some additional drawings of apparatus, which parallel those seen first in MS 50; see also MSS 52, 54, 71, 86, and 110.
Modern foliation in pencil begins with f. 2. However, f. 2 is the front free endpaper.
Extent: ff. 102 + iv : paper ; 192 x 153 (177 x 140) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Artephius.
Müller, Philipp, b. 1585.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Illumination of books and manuscripts--Early works to 1800.

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Citation: Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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, Mellon MS 57.