Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800 and America --Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
[Anonymous] Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent Martin Roesel of Rosenthal Wolfgang the Organist
Published / Created:
1536, ca. 1520, and ca. 1586
Call Number:
Mellon MS 27
Image Count:
141
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type.
Description:
Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing., In Latin and German, partly in cipher., Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124., Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia., and Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Maps --Early works to 1800, America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800, America --Early accounts to 1600, and Latin America --Description and travel --Early works
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Americae tertia pars memorabile provinciae Brasiliae historiam contines, Germanico primum sermone
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Lisbon
Subject (Geographic):
America --History --To 1810 and Brazil --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barre, Nicolas, Lery, Jean de, 1534-1611. Narratio profectionis, Staden, Hans, ca. 1525-ca. 1576. Americae tertia pars memorabile provinciae Brasiliae historiam contines, and Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of South America --Brazil, Tupi language, and Tupinamba Indians
Collection Created:
[Francofvrti ad Moenvm, Impressum apvd I. Wechelvm, impensis T. de Bry] venales reperiutur in officina T. de Bry, 1592 [i.e. 1597?]
Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800