De consideratione quinte essentie
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Description
- Title
- De consideratione quinte essentie
- Creator
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1475]
- Publication Place
- Germany (Augsburg?) and Germany, possibly Augsburg,
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie, anonymously translated into German.
- Description
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Binding: Original reddish brown polished leather over finely beveled wooden boards, troughs for two clasps and two spikes on front cover, each cover with five nipplelike wrought brass bosses, one at each corner and one in the center, the lower cover with two large brass roundels used to fasten the now-missing strap ties which emerged from the lower fore-edge; sides ruled to a simple geometric pattern, back with raised bands, the clasps now missing and the hinges cracked, but the binding sound.
Headings and capitals (a few decorated) in red throughout.
Script: Written by a very fine and bold German gothic cursive hand. - Extent
- ff. 80 : paper ; 212 x 150 (145 x 100) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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German
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 16
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Drawings
Illustrations
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Johannes,--de Rupescissa,--ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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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John of Rupescissa, De Consideratione Quinte Essentie. 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 16.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878088
- Object ID (OID)
- 2056665
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell016.htm