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2.
- 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
3.
- 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
4.
- Creator:
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
- Published / Created:
- MDCLII[-MDCLIV].[1652-1654]
- Call Number:
- 1995 +24
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesv, Oedipvs Aegyptiacvs, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Oedipvs Aegyptiacvs, Universalis hieroglypicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio, and Vniuersalis hieroglypicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio
- Publisher:
- Ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Egypt--History, and Egypt--Religion
- Subject (Topic):
- Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic and Hermetism--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu, Oedipus Aegyptiacus : hoc est Vniuersalis hieroglyphicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio : opus ex omni orientalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diuersarium linguarum, authoritate s
5.
- Creator:
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
- Published / Created:
- MDCLII[-MDCLIV].[1652-1654]
- Call Number:
- 1995 +24
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesv, Oedipvs Aegyptiacvs, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Oedipvs Aegyptiacvs, Universalis hieroglypicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio, and Vniuersalis hieroglypicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio
- Description:
- Colophon of v. 3 dated 1655., Signatures: v. 3: A-4I⁴ 4K²., and Vol. 3 has sub-title: Theatrum hieroglyphicum, hoc est, noua & hucusque intentata obeliscorum coeterorumque hieroglyphicorum monumentorum, quae tùm Romae, tùm in Aegypto ac celebrioribus Europae musaeis adhuc supersunt, interpretatio iuxta sensum physicum, tropologicum, mysticum, historicum, politicum, magicum, medicum, mathematicum, cabalisticum, hermeticum, sophicum, theosophicum; ex omni orientalium doctrina & sapientia demonstrata.
- Publisher:
- Ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Egypt--History, and Egypt--Religion
- Subject (Topic):
- Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic and Hermetism--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu, Oedipus Aegyptiacus : hoc est Vniuersalis hieroglyphicae veterum doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio : opus ex omni orientalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diuersarium linguarum, authoritate s
6.
- Creator:
- Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598
- Published / Created:
- [1569-1572]
- Call Number:
- MMLa191 569a
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Polyglot. 1569
- Description:
- General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia Sacra hebraice, chaldaice, graece, & latine, Philippi II. reg. cathol. pietate et stvdio ad sacrosanctae ecclesiae vsvm. Christoph. Plantinvs excvd.
7.
- Creator:
- Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598
- Published / Created:
- [1569-1572]
- Call Number:
- MMLa191 569a
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Polyglot. 1569
- Description:
- General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia Sacra hebraice, chaldaice, graece, & latine, Philippi II. reg. cathol. pietate et stvdio ad sacrosanctae ecclesiae vsvm. Christoph. Plantinvs excvd.
8.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 72
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing emblematical drawings related to horology and astrology, and astrological tables, each section opening with an elaborate title page
- Description:
- In Latin, Hebrew, and Greek., Script: Written epigraphically and always with great calligraphic skill in a variety of styles by a single practiced hand, possibly the same which executed the drawings., Each page of the manuscript has a pen-drawn border on the recto side, containing an emblematical drawing, or complex calendrical or horological drawing, executed in pen and heightened with gold and silver., and Binding: Original calf binding, now rather deteriorated, the sides very elaborately gold-tooled in a multiple rectangle pattern, the large innermost rectangle with a series of circles containing floral ornaments, similar half-circles at the edges, the back in compartments with floral decoration; marbled endpapers, plain edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Horology, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum
9.
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 168
- Description:
- Imperfect: some pages removed; other pages mutilated with some loss of text., In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately., and Volume contains a mixture of foliation, pagination and unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons
10.
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 189
- Description:
- In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons