- Creator:
- [Anonymous]
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent
Martin Roesel of Rosenthal
Wolfgang the Organist - Published / Created:
- 1536, ca. 1520, and ca. 1586
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 27
- Image Count:
- 141
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type.
- Description:
- Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing., In Latin and German, partly in cipher., Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124., Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia., and Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Creator:
- Arndt, Johann, 1555-1621
- Published / Created:
- 1798 September 18-25
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 136
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Das zweite Silentium Dei in Königs Salomonis des Weisen paradiessischen Lustgarten
- Description:
- With passages also written in cipher script.
- Publisher:
- by Gottfried Klaussen(?)
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das zweyte Silentium Dei in Königs Salomonis des Weisen paradiessischen Lustgarten
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 16
- Image Count:
- 85
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consideratione quinte essentie
- Creator:
- Herolt, Johann
Nicolaus, von Dinkelsbühl, approximately 1360-1433 - Published / Created:
- 1444
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 141
- Image Count:
- 259
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of 1) Five lines of verse on the proper formulaic conclusion to prayers addressed to members of the Trinity. 2) Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl, De septem peccatis capitalibus (Confessionale). 3) Latin and German names of the books of the Bible; Latin and German names of Aristotle's principal works; Latin names of the Minor Prophets; etc. 4) Johannes Herolt ("Discipulus"), Sermones dominicales. 5) Johannes Herolt, Sermo in festo Iohannis Baptiste.
- Alternative Title:
- Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl; Johannes Herolt, etc.
- Description:
- Binding stays from this and other parchment manuscripts, s. xiii-xiv, inserted throughout., Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. The backs of the quires are cut in. Original sewing on three double supports is laced into almost flush wooden boards, and the tawed skin cores of braided endbands, sewn through the cover, are also laced. The spine is back cornered with lining extending between supports on the outside of the boards. Large vermilion and sepia roses are painted on each edge. Back pastedown (and perhaps the inner front pastedown, covered by paper) consists of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 1200-1250) containing the Sermones de tempore of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla. Written in small neat early gothic bookhand, above top line. Binding stays from this and other parchment manuscripts, 13th-14th centuries. Covered in kermes pink skin blind-tooled with an X in a frame on the front board, tying-up marks on the spine, and a frame on the lower one. Five round, brass bosses on each board and one fastening, the catch inset on the upper board, the lower one cut in for the strap., Crude red initials, 3- to 2-line, throughout; ff. 33v-38r, 113v-114v and 166r-203r rubricated., Imperfect: leaves 123r-124r and 207r-v mutilated., Purchased in 1946 from H. Rosenthal by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by multiple scribes in varying styles of gothic hybrida and bookhand scripts., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11786 and unidentified bull's head.
- Subject (Name):
- Dinkelsbuehl, Nicolaus de and John,--the Baptist, Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Church year sermons, Confession--Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De septem peccatis capitalibus (Confessionale) ...
- Creator:
- Schwenter, Daniel, 1585-1636
- Published / Created:
- 1651-53.
- Call Number:
- Zg17 H25 651
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Manuscript notes throughout text and [2] p. on leaves following printed text.
- Publisher:
- in Verlegung Jeremiae Duemlers,
- Subject (Name):
- Harsdoerffer, Georg Philipp, 1607-1658
- Subject (Topic):
- Scientific recreations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Deliciae physico-mathematicae, oder, Mathemat. und philosophische Erquickstunden ... / am Tag gegeben durch M. Danielem Schwenterum ...
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- Creator:
- Schoensperger, Johann, ca. 1480-1543, printer
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1515]
- Call Number:
- 2009 186
- Image Count:
- 10
- Abstract:
- A late medieval German poem of advice to young and old women, Der frawen Spiegel defines the ideal qualities, activities, and virtues of married and unmarried women. This rare edition is illustrated with one of the earliest examples of a chiaroscuro woodcut. Made especially for this volume, the illustration shows two women holding up a mirror. One, provocatively dressed, represents the unmarried girl, the other, in more matronly attire, the married woman mentioned in the title.
- Alternative Title:
- Frauen Spiegel and Frauenspiegel
- Description:
- Weller gives date of ca. 1520.
- Publisher:
- [Johann Schoensperger the younger]
- Subject (Topic):
- Wives --Conduct of life --Early works to 1800 and Women --Conduct of life --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Der Frawen Spiegel : in wellichem Spiegel sich das weyblich Byld, jung oder altt beschauw[e]n oder lernen, zu gebrauchen, die Woltat gegen irem eelichen Gemahel
- Creator:
- Runge, F. F. (Friedlieb Ferdinand), 1795-1867
- Published / Created:
- 1836
- Call Number:
- 2007 639
- Image Count:
- 299
- Abstract:
- This rare introduction to the chemistry of dyes includes 153 mounted color samples. F. F. Runge (1795-1867) was dubbed "Dr. Poison" (Doktor Gift) by his fellow medical students at Jena because of his research on poisonous plants. Runge earned a second doctorate, in chemistry, from Berlin, and went on to a career as director of a chemical factory in Oranienburg. He was the first to isolate phenol and aniline from coal tar and showed how synthetic dyes could be made from these compounds, an accomplishment that made him a significant figure in the economic history of Germany. While he was still a student in Jena, Runge isolated caffeine for the first time, and it is said that Goethe gave him the coffee beans for this experiment. Runge was also the first to isolate quinine.
- Description:
- Mounted dyed fabric squares throughout text illustrate chemical reactions. and Possibly imperfect: Some illustrations appear to want corresponding dyed squares.
- Publisher:
- Verlag der Sanderschen Buchhandlung (C.W. Eichhoff.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Chemical reaction, Conditions and laws of, Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Technical, and Dyes and dyeing --Chemistry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Einleitung in die technische Chemie fuer Jedermann / von Dr. F.F. Runge ... ; mit 150 im Text befindlichen Tafeln, worauf die chemischen Verbindungen in natura dargestellt sind
- Creator:
- Heinrich, von St. Gallen, fl. 1371-1397
- Published / Created:
- 1475
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 760
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Passionstraktat; Prayers