Parchment and paper codex, ff. 87 of which f. 1-3 and 6-19 are of paper, the remainder of parchment, with modern pencil foliation throughout. and Personal commonplace book combining skillful drawings of apparatus, alchemical texts in German vernacular with noteworthy literary character--some of them in verse--and numerous practical procedures.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
De alchimia opuscula complura veterum philosophorum. and Rosarium philosophorum
Description:
2 pts. in 1 v., Part 2 has title: Rosarivm philosophorvm. Secvnda pars Alchimiae de lapide philosophico ..., and Title page hand colored with woodcut illustration.
Publisher:
Ex officina Cyriaci Iacobi
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy --Early works to 1800 and Chemistry --Early works to 1800
De alchimia opuscula complura veterum philosophorum. and Rosarium philosophorum
Description:
2 pts. in 1 v., Part 2 has title: Rosarivm philosophorvm. Secvnda pars Alchimi� de lapide philosophico ..., and Title page hand colored with woodcut illustration.
Publisher:
Ex officina Cyriaci Iacobi
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy --Early works to 1800 and Chemistry --Early works to 1800
America --History --To 1810 and Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
Subject (Name):
Acosta, Jose de, 1540-1600. De Novi Orbis natura et ratione, Bry, Israel de, d. 1611, Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?, Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627. Vera et accurata descriptio, and Potgieter, Barent Jansz,