Lumen luminum, etc
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17388793
Description
- Title
- Lumen luminum, etc
- Creator
- Elia, da Cortona, frate, -1253
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1525]
- Publication Place
- North Italy (Venice?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of Elias Cortonensis O.F.M., Lumen luminum, said according to this copy to have been composed in 1315, an erroneous date, and drawn from Saracen and Hebrew sources, translated into Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a church figure, with a cipher code; and miscellaneous recipes in Italian
- Description
-
In Latin, with Italian prologue.
Watermark: a circle containing an unidentified design element, with a six-pointed star on a shaft above, not identified.
Script: Written in an italic hand and partly in cipher.
Binding: Original, North Italian. Dark leather, the sides ruled with triple bordering lines to form a rectangle within a rectangle, the smaller rectangle with a roll tool of vinelike foliage impressed in blind, a smaller interior rectangle formed by the panel of roll tooling with gold-stamped ivy leaves at the corners and a circular stamp incorporating the "yhs" monogram in the center framed by a lozenge of tooling with the same roll already mentioned; back with five raised bands; modern gold-stamped title label pasted onto second compartment from top. Backstrip and corners extensively repaired; gilt edges stamped with a herringbone knotwork pattern. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 26, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. 33 : 190 x 132 (135 x 93) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 29
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Elia, da Cortona, frate, -1253.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Alchemy
Ciphers
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Elia, da Cortona, frate, -1253
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Ciphers > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
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
- Elias Cortonensis, O.F.M., Lumen Luminum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878561
- Object ID (OID)
- 17388793
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