- Creator:
- Caspar Harttung vom Hoff
- Published / Created:
- 1557
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 38
- Image Count:
- 95
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Harttung vom Hoff
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das Vade mecum
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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:
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
- Published / Created:
- 1796
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 134
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
- Description:
- Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
- Subject (Name):
- Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Alchemical miscellany, chiefly concerned with Hermes, Tabula Smaragdina]
- Published / Created:
- 1562
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 40
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
- Description:
- Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled Kunstbuechlein]