- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600-1649]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 48
- Image Count:
- 410
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in several different hands, of a compilation of grants of arms, pedigrees registered by the College of Arms, rules of precedence and orders of ceremonies, and related documents. Thought to have been largely compiled by John Philipot, Somerset Herald of Arms (1589?-1645), the volume contains copies of documents originally created between 1563 and 1688.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary limp parchment; remains of ties., Contents preceded by "A Table of the Graunts of Armes contained in this booke" and "A Callender of what is contained in this Booke.", Formerly owned by Henry St. George; Phillipps MS 13762. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Imperfect: wanting ff. 119, 162., In English, with a small amount of Latin., Printed bookseller's description pasted on inside front cover., and Title transcribed from front cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- College of Arms (Great Britain)--Early works to 1800., Philipot, John,--1589?-1645., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., and St. George, Henry,--Sir,--1625-1715--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Gentry--Great Britain., Gentry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Heraldry--Great Britain., Heraldry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieva
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Precedents and several other things contained in this booke : some pattents, funeralls, some coates.