[Alchemical miscellany]

Description

Title: [Alchemical miscellany]
Published / Created: [ca. 1550]
Publication Place: [Genoa?]
Abstract: Compiled by Johannes Baptista F----- probably a Genoese connected with the Franciscan Order., Front pastedown: [This page and the recto of the facing front flyleaf are covered with small ink drawings of alchemical apparatus, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, similar equipment, as well as a ""Bain-Marie"" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled. Verso of the front flyleaf is blank.], and Paper codex in Latin, Italian, and Spanish
Description: In case with original, badly wormed, binding and endpapers.
Written throughout by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-sixteenth-century italic.
Extent: [277] ff.
205 x 150 mm.
ill.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Italian
Latin
Spanish; Castilian

Format: text
Genre: Drawings
Illustrations
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--16th century
Material: paper
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Alchemy--Early works to 1800
Drawing--16th century
Italian poetry--16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven

Access: Public
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Citation: Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and 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 36.

Orbis Record: 9878814
OID: 2037173
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell036.htm