Das Vade mecum
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Description
- Title
- Das Vade mecum
- Creator
- Caspar Harttung vom Hoff
- Contributor
- Harttung vom Hoff
- Published / Created
- 1557
- Publication Place
- Gastein (Austria)
- Abstract
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Parchment and paper codex, ff. 87 of which f. 1-3 and 6-19 are of paper, the remainder of parchment, with modern pencil foliation throughout.
Personal commonplace book combining skillful drawings of apparatus, alchemical texts in German vernacular with noteworthy literary character--some of them in verse--and numerous practical procedures.
- Description
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Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557
Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625. - Extent
- ff. ii + 87 + ii : parchment and paper ; 105 x 85 (82-92 x 73-87) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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German
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 38
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Illustrations
Manuscripts - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Harttung vom Hoff
- Subject (Topic)
- Alchemy
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
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Caspar Harttung vom Hoff, Das Vade Mecum. 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 38.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9879522
- Object ID (OID)
- 2037177
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell038.htm
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