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1. Alchemical and rosicrucian compendium
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1760]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 110
- Container / Volume:
- 2
- Image Count:
- 989
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources
- Description:
- In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew., Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler., Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds., With additions in German and Dutch., Bound in 2 volumes., and Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and rosicrucian compendium
2. Alchemical and rosicrucian compendium
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1760]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 110
- Container / Volume:
- 1
- Image Count:
- 950
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources
- Description:
- In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew., Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler., Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds., With additions in German and Dutch., Bound in 2 volumes., and Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and rosicrucian compendium
3. Arcana divina et compendium cum clavibus philosophischen realitaten und experimenten
- Creator:
- Lieber, Anna Susanna
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1743]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 81
- Image Count:
- 492
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an experimental alchemical compilation, devoted to laboratory procedures
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: Partly written by F.F. Weichenhaan in a clear, sometimes hasty cursive sloping to the right, in Fraktur for the passages in German; the remainder written by Anna Susanna Lieber in a rather loose and pointed Fraktur sloping to the right., Watermarks: Watermarks of the smaller papers at edges and cut, not identified; the paper folded in quarto with a decidely brownish tint and a large, faint watermark in the folds, not identified., Light to very dark brown inks, no color, a few sketches of apparatus in the text. No catchwords, no signatures., Compiled about 1743 by F.F. Weichenhaan, partly from materials written about 1705 by Anna Susanna Lieber., and Binding: Old paper boards with parchment back, a title lettered in brown ink by a modern hand in gothic letters on the backstrip, plain edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Laboratory Techniques and Procedures
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arcana divina et compendium cum clavibus philosophischen realitaten und experimenten
4. Das buch der weissheit zum langen leben und vollkommenen reichthum
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1790]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 132
- Image Count:
- 244
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text containing an excellent copy of the poem beginning "Unter den sieben Planeten bin ich Sol genannt ..." with associated prose commentaries, as first seen in MS 94. Decorated with a fine frontispiece and elegant head- and tailpieces all drawn in a copperplate style, as well as a series of pen-and-wash drawings depicting alchemical processes emblematically within circles, often surmounted by crosses
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: Calligraphically written in brown inks in a delicate Fraktur with some words or passages in cursive and with title pages in red and brown in elaborate gothic scripts., Watermarks: Written throughout on paper with a "PRO PATRIA" watermark, similar to Heawood 3696-3718, but countermarked with letters "CMH" (? in folds and uncertain)., and Binding: Original or contemporary binding of brown calf, the sides with a blind-impressed border of small tools, partly covered by a single gold rule, the back in six compartments decorated with gold-stamped small tools in a floral pattern, the second compartment from the top stamped directly with "BUCH DER WEISH" and the next compartment below with "MS." Edges peckled red over gilding.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and German poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das buch der weissheit zum langen leben und vollkommenen reichthum
5. Das geheime buch der weissheit zum langen leben und vollkommenen reichtum
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1790]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 133
- Image Count:
- 382
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemy in verse with an extended prose commentary
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: Calligraphically written by a single hand in an elegant German Fraktur, the Latin passages in cursive, both sloping to the right., Watermarks: Fine Dutch paper watermarked with a cartouche with the inscription "C. & [?] HONIG" below, comparable to Heawood 3347 (1724-1726), but judged to be somewhat later., and Binding: Original German binding of mottled dark brown calf, sides plain, back in compartments with gold tooling imitative of French work, citron morocco title label with gold lettering in gothic characters, "Das geheime Buch der Weisheit," and blind impression in the compartment below of a second label now missing, lettered "1. 2. 3. 4." Red edges: pastedown and facing side of flyleaves at front and back marbled in red.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and German poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das geheime buch der weissheit zum langen leben und vollkommenen reichtum
6. German miscellany
- Published / Created:
- 1466 (?).
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 653
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in 3 parts, of unidentified sermons. The three sections appear to have the same origin and to have been united soon after their making. The scribe and owner was a lay brother in the convent of Augustinian Canons St. Dorothea in Vienna
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Watermarks: Part I: balance, var. Piccard, Waage V.331?; star, var. Briquet 6077?. Part II: bull's head, unidentified?. Part III: column var. Briquet 4408?; bull's head var. Briquet 14825? (last three folios)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76) copied by various hands writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part II (ff. 77-160) copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part III (ff. 161-261) copied by five hands in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., Part I: Headings in red, often missing; heightening of the majuscules in red; plain red 4-line initials; they are flourished with black penwork on ff.18v-19r. Part II: Headings in red, sometimes missing. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 125v-126r only. Spaces and guide-letters for 2-3 line initials (4-line initial on f. 77r) , which have not been executed., Part III: The decoration of art. 15 consists of 3-4 line plain initials in red; at the opening a 5-line flourished initial in red. Art. 16 has red stroking of the opening majuscules of all verses and 2-line plain red initials. In art. 17 the majuscules are heightened with red. The Fables in art. 15 are illustrated with unframed watercoloured pen drawings., and Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over unbevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover, containing several times the inscription in relief "Osan".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustinian Canons. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, German
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > German miscellany
7. Legal Document (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.143
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract concerning land near Bruneck, a description in Latin of the damage to Mohammed's tomb in Mecca by a storm in 1481, and an account of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian I at Aachen in 1486, written in southern German dialect
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: written in a cursive gothic script (littera cursiva) in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.144., and Decoration: the first word of the document ("Ich") is enlarged, with the initial "I" trailing down the margin of the entire text; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Legal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal Document (fragment).
8. Legal Document (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.144
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a legal document containing a document concerning tenure of land; an account of the election of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486; and a brief description of how one is to celebrate the feast of a newly canonized saint
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: written in cursive gothic script (littera cursiva), similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.143., and Decoration: the document begins with a flourished initial; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Legal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal Document (fragment).
9. Novum lumen chymicum and Parabola
- Creator:
- Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1610]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 47
- Image Count:
- 313
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novum lumen chymicum and Parabola