Manuscript on paper containing 1) Michael Sendivogius, Novum lumen chymicum & Parabola, translated into German. 2) De lapide philosophico et eius praeparatione, in German. 3) Alchemical recipes, in German, beginning with a brief description of alchemical implements and vessels in Latin. 4) Via veritatis, in German
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Written in a rather upright Fraktur, with Latin words and passages in italic cursive., Six pen-drawn illustrations on ff. 107v-108v., Watermark: an armorial shield at margins and cut, not identified., and Binding: Original limp parchment fashioned from a leaf taken from a French (?) manuscript, ca. 1300, containing canon law fragments written in two columns in a formal Littera parisiensis, with glossae in a less formal hand, with section marks in red and blue, rather worn; pale red edges. Preserved in a modern marbled board solander case with tan oasis back by Carolyn Horton.
Subject (Name):
Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Natural history, Pre-Linnaen works, and German literature
Vol. 2 has title: Donum Dei Samuelis Baruch ... welcher erlernet das grosse Geheimniss des grossen Meisters Tubalkains aus dessen Tabell, gefunden von Abrahamo Eliazare, dem Juden. I. N. U. CXI.
Binders leaves : ff. 4-16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-83 mostly blank with several modern annotations in pencil., ff. 42 : anonymous additions written in England, ca. 1700 (missing from volume)., and On paper with modern foliation in pencil including binder's blanks.
Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
Description:
Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.