Alchemical miscellany
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Description
- Title
- Alchemical miscellany
- Contributor
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Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Berry, Jean de France, duc de, 1340-1416, dubious author.
Gaufridi, Raymundus.
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365.
Johannes Pauper.
Nicholas. - Published / Created
- June and July 1480.
- Publication Place
- London
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of the following mystical or speculative alchemies translated into French: Arnold of Villanova, Rosarius; Albertus Magnus, Compositum de compositis; and Ramon Lull, Clavicula. Alchemies in Latin by Raymundus Gaufridi, Roger Bacon (?), Nicholas, Johannes Pauper, John of Rupescissa, and the Duc de Berry (?). Also includes a long series of wholly practical procedures and recipes
- Description
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In French and Latin.
Script: Written by one scribe in a remarkably small and neat cursive gothic hand.
No headlines, no color, no decoration, spaces left for some capitals with guide letters, a few drawings in the text or in margins.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper boards with diced calf back, the backstrip in compartments with horizontal gilt fillets, lines of gilt small tools bordering the false bands, title label in the second compartment from the top gilt-lettered "REGNAULT". Early, probably original green edges. Hinges of the binding repaired. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 30, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- 1 volume (ii + 159 + ii leaves) : 143 x 102 (90 x 60) mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 19
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy
Formulas, recipes, etc
Glass painting and staining
Technique
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Formulas, recipes, etc > Early works to 1800
Glass painting and staining > Technique > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 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 Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878205
- Object ID (OID)
- 32491944
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