- Creator:
- Paracelsus, 1493-1541
- Published / Created:
- 1676
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 68
- Image Count:
- 336
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of writings by Paracelsus, speudonym of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast ab Hohenheim, 1493-1541, compiled by the pharmacist Georgius Schrotter in 1676.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth-century boards with rough calf back, worn, defective, and repaired, plain edges, probably an American binding., Mellon MS 159, acquired from Laurence Witten (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Calligraphically written in a variety of scripts, most of the text in a skillful Fraktur, by a single hand except for a few later additions., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a tall, thin pot with a single handle, plain and very crude, not identified., and Written in German with Latin headings and some cryptic writing. The ink, mostly very dark, has often bled into the paper and has sometimes had a corrosive effect.
- Subject (Name):
- Paracelsus,--1493-1541
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800 and Medicine--Early works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical and other writings.
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- Creator:
- Schrick, Michael Puff, von, ca. 1400-1473
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1480
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 885
- Image Count:
- 19
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ain nuetzliche materi von mangerlay ussgeprentem wasser ...
- 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:
- [ca. 1740]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 97
- Image Count:
- 344
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--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 > Alchemical recipes
- Creator:
- Aristotle, pseud.
Falconer, William
Rufus, Jordanus
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230 - Published / Created:
- 13th-14th-mid 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1024
- Image Count:
- 179
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Falconibus: ms., on parchment and paper, in Latin, German and French, Medecina equorum: ms., on parchment and paper, in Latin, German and French, and Secrtum secretorum: ms., on parchment and paper, in Latin, German and French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Algorismus: ms., on parchment and paper, in Latin, German and French
- Published / Created:
- 1442
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 745
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Amorbach (Germany) and Mudau (Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Abtei Amorbach
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Appointment of Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach, to the position of mayor of Muda
- Creator:
- Anonymous
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1725
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 88
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arcana divina
- 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.
- Creator:
- Scharf, August
Scharf, Elisabeth - Published / Created:
- 1853-1863
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2380 Sch17
- Image Count:
- 23
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Six autograph letters (1853-1856) from August Scharf and his wife to her parents in Hermann [Missouri?] written after their arrival in California. The letters discuss their ranch, August's work in the mines, trouble with Elisabeth's brothers, financial difficulties, and Elisabeth's death. One letter contains an addendum by August's friend Jakob Schneider and wife. The Scharf letters are accompanied by three autograph letters dated 1860-1863, one from Alwine Scharf Weber to her brother from Naumburg, Germany containing family news, another from Gottlob Sachse Shuhmacher to his friend August Scharf from Nebra, near Naumburg, asking for news of his brother-in-law, and a third from Charles Robert Kleine to [August?] Scharf from San Francisco mentioning that he had visited Scharf's little son.
- Description:
- August Scharf, his wife Elisabeth, and her three brothers made an overland journey to California in 1853 from Hermann (possibly Hermann, Missouri, a German settlement). The Scharfs lived in Grizzly Flat, where they had a farm and had shares in a gold mill. Elisabeth died in August 1856, two months after having a third child, their first girl. and Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2000.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California--Gold discoveries and Hermann (Mo.)
- Subject (Name):
- Scharf, August and Scharf, Elisabeth
- Subject (Topic):
- German Americans--California and Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > August and Elisabeth Scharf family letters from California