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
Manuscript on paper of John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie, anonymously translated into German.
Description:
Binding: Original reddish brown polished leather over finely beveled wooden boards, troughs for two clasps and two spikes on front cover, each cover with five nipplelike wrought brass bosses, one at each corner and one in the center, the lower cover with two large brass roundels used to fasten the now-missing strap ties which emerged from the lower fore-edge; sides ruled to a simple geometric pattern, back with raised bands, the clasps now missing and the hinges cracked, but the binding sound., Headings and capitals (a few decorated) in red throughout., and Script: Written by a very fine and bold German gothic cursive hand.
Subject (Name):
Johannes,--de Rupescissa,--ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
This present boke named the shyp of folys of the worlde was translated i the college of Saynt Mary
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
[Narrenschiff. Latin & English]
Publisher:
Richarde Pynson
Collection Created:
Imprentyd in the cyte of London : In Fletestre at the signe of Saynt George by Richarde Pynson to hys coste and charge, ended the yere of Our Sauiour M.d.ix. the xiiii. day of December [1509]
[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.