Alchemical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany
- Creator
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Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 - Contributor
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Duveen, Denis I., bookplate
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum. German
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 - Published / Created
- 1528
- Publication Place
- North Germany (?),
- Abstract
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Alchemical miscellany, compiled in 1528, perhaps by Niclaus of Sweden, who appears to have signed the last procedure in the volume on f. cclxxxxviiij verso
- Description
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Binding: Original blind-stamped brown calf over beveled wooden boards, the sides paneled in vertical patterns of roll tools, two brass catches on upper cover, remains of brass attachments for clasps on the lower; the original backstrip with three raised bands laid down; plain edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, New York, and with a leather title label on the backstrip supplied by her.
ff. 322v-346r blank and not scanned. Signatures 2R, 2S, 2T, 2V noted at 329r, 335r, 339r, and 341r, respectively.
ff. 348, of which ff. 1-18 are unnumbered, ff. 19- 317 are correctly numbered i-cclxxxxviiij by the scribe, the remaining ff. 318-348 originally blank and unnumbered now partly with later additions, ff. 18 and 322-346 blank, the last leaf serving as the end pastedown.
On paper.
Script: Very neat and clear gothic cursives, captions by the same hand, written in two parts, the second beginning at f. 201r.
Some red sentence-strokes and underlining; red captions and chapter headings with minimal elaboration, carefully laid out on the page, also pen line-fillers at end of each section, as needed for text spacing. A penned brown and red crown as folk symbol at left margin of f. 135r. Infrequent sketches of alchemical vessels in brown or red at side margins, some very slightly trimmed.
Watermarks: 1) a long-stemmed cross above a bull's head; 2) a six-lobed arc above and each lobe surmounted by a three-lobed cross; 3) a crown. All with vertical chain marks, trimmed, not identified. - Extent
- ff. 348 : paper ; 217 x 146 (165 x 135) 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 30
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Annotations
Drawings
Illustrations
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Duveen, Denis I., bookplate
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum. German
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 - Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy
Metallurgy--Early works to 1800
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
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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 30.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878615
- Object ID (OID)
- 2066760
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell030.htm
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