- 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
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- 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
- 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:
- Hebrew Antiquarian Society. London
- Published / Created:
- 1851]
- Call Number:
- Fne10 H35x
- Image Count:
- 48
- Description:
- Caption-title., Text in German, English and Hebrew., and The English part has caption-title: The Hebrew Antiquarian Society for publishing the most ancient and most important Hebrew manuscripts hitherto yet unprinted.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prospect der Hebräisch-antiquarischen Gesellschaft zu London.
- Published / Created:
- 1542
- Call Number:
- Fngh25 542e
- Collection Title:
- Shemot devarim ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Alphabetical list of Hebrew, Yiddish, German, and Latin.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hebrew language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc., Hebrew language--Texts, Yiddish language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc., and Yiddish language--Text.
- Collection Created:
- Impressum Isne anno, 1542
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shemot devarim ...
- Creator:
- [Wilhelm]
- Published / Created:
- [15-]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 908
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Epistle from Haldenberger to Petrus
- Description:
- Several blank leaves, 224v-248r and 249v-251r, not scanned.
- Subject (Topic):
- German drama--Early modern, 1500-1700 and Latin letters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unpublished drama
- Published / Created:
- 1748-49
- Call Number:
- Mcf31 748
- Collection Title:
- Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatzens hochfu¨rst. Bayreuth. Pfarrers in Uttenreuth Kirchliche
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Printers vary: v. 1: Erlang, Gedruckt bey des sel. Joh. Friedr. Beckers, Univ. Buchdr. nachgelassenen Wittwe; v. 2: Coburg, gedruckt bey Georg Otto, Hochf. Sachs. privil. Hofbuchdr., 4 pts. in 2 v., and Bound in between p. 156-157.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews --Germany and Jews --Social life and customs
- Collection Created:
- Frankfurt und Leipzig : Auf Kosten des Auctoris, 1748-1749
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Zur erklarung der sabbaths ceremonien
- 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]