Alchemical compilation
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical compilation
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1490; 1790]
- Publication Place
- Low Countries
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners in early alchemy; and laboratory procedures, designed primarily to color metals and to carry out other operations with various substances. Leaves inserted and blank pages filled at later dates
- Description
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In Latin, with later additions in Latin and German.
Watermark: Outstretched hand, the fingerjoints indicated, a four-leafed petal extending from the tip of the third finger, the wrist and cuff of a sleeve also depicted, comparable to Briquet 11423.
Script: The original part of the codex (ff. 1-133) written in a very fine, neat, and clear humanistic hand, and using a considerable range of alchemical symbols; the later additions (ff. 134-145) consist of Latin sections written in a neat italic and German passages in flowing cursive, perhaps both by a single German hand of the 18th century.
Headings of procedures in red and blue alternating in the original section, and with some capitals stroked red; no color in the additions. No ornament.
Though the whole of the manuscript has suffered some marginal water-staining since it was bound, it appears certain that other stains and damage occurred while the separated quires, or groups of them, remained unbound.
Binding: Probably original. Stiff parchment over paper boards, flaps over the fore-edge, probably dating from about 1525, conceivably later, as the manuscript contents do not appear to have been bound at the time of writing in any case; flat spine with modern inscription in brown ink, "Alchemical | Recipes", original blue edges. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 21, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. 146 : 140 x 104 (100 x 59) 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 20
- Related Resource Online
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Netherlands 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Science, Medieval - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Science, Medieval
Netherlands > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Alchemical Compilation. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878237
- Object ID (OID)
- 2056329
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