Alchemical texts

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Title: Alchemical texts
Published / Created: [between 1600 and 1800]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (watermarks hidden in gutter) of alchemical texts including works by Albertus Magnus, Johannes Andreae, and Paracelsus. With treatises on the Philosopher's Stone and alchemical recipes
Description: In Latin and German.
Script: Written by 10 or more hands, all of the 17th and 18th centuries; most are cursive, but the one on ff. 176r-183r is gothic textura.
Drawings in watercolor, of mediocre quality, including various symbolic depictions of alchemical processes taking place within flasks. Table of Hermes Trismegistus, f. 175r. Diagrams scattered throughout.
Binding: 18th century (?). Brown calf blind-tooled, edges gilt. Arms (unidentified) stamped on binding: on front, quarterly 1 and 4, barry of 6, 2 and 3, a lion rampant; inescutcheon, a bar fess impaled with barry of 6; the whole held by a two-headed eagle, displayed, below a crown. Back cover: barry of 8 impaled with a patriarchal cross on a hillock.
Provenance: Purchased from C.A. Stonehill in 1963 with the Albert de Silver Fund.
Extent: ff. xii + 236 + xviiii : 190 x 148 (159 x 116) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: 19 unnumbered blank leaves at end not digitized.
Language: Latin
German

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348.
Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
German poetry
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348
Paracelsus, 1493-1541
Alchemy
German poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Alchemical Texts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.