Livre de la tres sainte trinite

Description

Title: Livre de la tres sainte trinite
Published / Created: [ca. 1700]
Publication Place: France,
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: All 14 illustrations digitized. Parchment foliation includes interleaved blanks which were not digitized.
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.
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.
Extent: ff. ii + 211 + 28 + i : paper and parchment ; 396 x 261 (315 x 187) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: French

Access: Public
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Citation: Livre de la tres Sainte Trinite. 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 Four: Manuscripts, Mellon MS 74.