Alchemical miscellany.

Description

Title: Alchemical miscellany.
Contributor: Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Hermes, Trismegistus.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created: [ca. 1440]
Publication Place: North Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a collection of alchemical texts, including works by Rasis, Roger Bacon, and Hermes. Though the Bacon text and one other are early practical alchemies, the contents are mainly speculative in character.
Description: Binding: Modern. Parchment, cut from a leaf of a very large manuscript, probably a lectionary, written in a Rotunda antiquior hand, Italian, 12th century; writing on outer surface erased, printed paper label on backstrip.
Book and chapter headings in red, rubrication, capitals stroked yellow, larger initials painted in red or blue with tracery ornament in the contrasting color (all decoration probably by the scribe; red headings in the scribe's hand, all other red decoration with ink of apparently identical composition).
Denis Duveen, acquired from Joseph Martini, 1938; Mellon MS 34, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Script: Written by one scribe in a very neat and regular prehumanistic hand.
Extent: ff. iii + 101 + iii : paper ; 208 x 142 (126 x 190) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Hermes, Trismegistus.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Subject (Topic): Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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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 7.

Orbis Record: 9877550
Object ID (OID): 17437514
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell007.htm