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- Published / Created:
- ca. 1490 and ca. 1790 (additions)
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 20
- Image Count:
- 156
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners in early alchemy; and laboratory procedures, designed primarily to color metals and to carry out other operations with various substances. Leaves inserted and blank pages filled at later dates.
- Description:
- Binding: Probably original. Stiff parchment over paper boards, flaps over the fore-edge, probably dating from about 1525, conceivably later, as the manuscript contents do not appear to have been bound at the time of writing in any case; flat spine with modern inscription in brown ink, "Alchemical, Headings of procedures in red and blue alternating in the original section, and with some capitals stroked red; no color in the additions. No ornament., Recipes, original blue edges., Script: The original part of the codex (ff. 1-133) written in a very fine, neat, and clear humanistic hand, and using a considerable range of alchemical symbols; the later additions (ff. 134-145) consist of Latin sections written in a neat italic and German passages in flowing cursive, perhaps both by a single German hand of the 18th century., Though the whole of the manuscript has suffered some marginal water-staining since it was bound, it appears certain that other stains and damage occurred while the separated quires, or groups of them, remained unbound., and Watermark: Outstretched hand, the fingerjoints indicated, a four-leafed petal extending from the tip of the third finger, the wrist and cuff of a sleeve also depicted, comparable to Briquet 11423.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical compilation
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 - Published / Created:
- 1528
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 30
- Image Count:
- 327
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Alchemical miscellany, compiled in 1528, perhaps by Niclaus of Sweden, who appears to have signed the last procedure in the volume on f. cclxxxxviiij verso
- Description:
- Binding: Original blind-stamped brown calf over beveled wooden boards, the sides paneled in vertical patterns of roll tools, two brass catches on upper cover, remains of brass attachments for clasps on the lower; the original backstrip with three raised bands laid down; plain edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, New York, and with a leather title label on the backstrip supplied by her., ff. 322v-346r blank and not scanned. Signatures 2R, 2S, 2T, 2V noted at 329r, 335r, 339r, and 341r, respectively., ff. 348, of which ff. 1-18 are unnumbered, ff. 19- 317 are correctly numbered i-cclxxxxviiij by the scribe, the remaining ff. 318-348 originally blank and unnumbered now partly with later additions, ff. 18 and 322-346 blank, the last leaf serving as the end pastedown., On paper., Script: Very neat and clear gothic cursives, captions by the same hand, written in two parts, the second beginning at f. 201r., Some red sentence-strokes and underlining; red captions and chapter headings with minimal elaboration, carefully laid out on the page, also pen line-fillers at end of each section, as needed for text spacing. A penned brown and red crown as folk symbol at left margin of f. 135r. Infrequent sketches of alchemical vessels in brown or red at side margins, some very slightly trimmed., and Watermarks: 1) a long-stemmed cross above a bull's head; 2) a six-lobed arc above and each lobe surmounted by a three-lobed cross; 3) a crown. All with vertical chain marks, trimmed, not identified.
- Subject (Name):
- Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum. German, and Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Metallurgy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1018
- Image Count:
- 131
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Bound with other texts, including Lucidarius, by Honorius of Autun., ff. 101v-108r blank, not scanned., MS waste used in binding., and On paper.
- Subject (Name):
- Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156 and Lucidarius
- Subject (Topic):
- Religion --Philosophy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars moriendi, etc.
- Published / Created:
- 1463
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1044
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar and handbook for the Carthusian Order of Wuerzburg
- Creator:
- Jordan von Martinsbuech, Christoff
- Published / Created:
- 1577
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 734
- Image Count:
- 368
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- On paper
- Subject (Geographic):
- Salzburg (Austria)--History--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Topic):
- Devices (Heraldry)--Europe--Early works to 1800 and German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica unnd Beschreibunge, was fur Bischove auch Ertzbischore das Hochloblich Ertzstifft und uralte Haubstat Saltzburg...
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- Creator:
- Alexander, de Villa Dei
- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^2 [15th century, second half]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1117
- Collection Title:
- Grammatical texts
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 8
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Also in folder: Bibliographic notes from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, de Villa Dei
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
- Collection Created:
- Various locations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctrinale
- Creator:
- Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1455-1460]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1134
- Image Count:
- 653
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Complete version of the earliest German translation of the Legenda aurea., Teil I: Sommerteil, and Teil II: Winterteil
- Description:
- 2 volumes bound together with discreet foliation., On paper, and Teil II wanting ff. 4, 292.
- Subject (Name):
- Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad, 1722-1798, provenance
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian saints --Biography --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Calendar --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Legends --Early works to 1800, Church calendar --Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, German--Germany, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legenda aurea
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1484]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 882
- Image Count:
- 415
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
- Description:
- Leaf 105a excised.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Křišt̕an z Prachatic, ca. 1366-1439
Wenceslas, Emperor of Germany, 1361-1419 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 9
- Image Count:
- 671
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes.
- Description:
- Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY"., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., Pagination refers to openings, i.e. facing pages., and Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal.