- 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
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 72
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing emblematical drawings related to horology and astrology, and astrological tables, each section opening with an elaborate title page
- Description:
- In Latin, Hebrew, and Greek., Script: Written epigraphically and always with great calligraphic skill in a variety of styles by a single practiced hand, possibly the same which executed the drawings., Each page of the manuscript has a pen-drawn border on the recto side, containing an emblematical drawing, or complex calendrical or horological drawing, executed in pen and heightened with gold and silver., and Binding: Original calf binding, now rather deteriorated, the sides very elaborately gold-tooled in a multiple rectangle pattern, the large innermost rectangle with a series of circles containing floral ornaments, similar half-circles at the edges, the back in compartments with floral decoration; marbled endpapers, plain edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Horology, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum
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- Creator:
- Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian, Freiherr, 1636-1689
- Published / Created:
- 1677-1684.
- Call Number:
- Zg17 K75 684k
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Zohar. Latin and Hebrew and Doctrina hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica
- Description:
- Commentary on and translation of three parts of the Zohar, and other treatises., Vol. 2 entitled: Kabbalae denudatae tomus secundus : id est liber Sohar restitutuo ... cui adjecta Adumbratio Cabbalae Christianae ad captum Judæorum (t.p. in red and black)., In Latin and Hebrew., Vol. 1 has added full pictorial t.p.; v. 2 has title-vignette and two tables (one folded)., Section-titles of v. 1, parts 1-4: Apparatus librum Sohar, pars prima [-quarta], with no special t.p.s., Imprint varies: v. 2, Francofurti : Sumptibus Joannis Davidis Zunneri; typis Balthasar Christoph. Wustii Sen., l684., With head- and tailpieces, initials. Binder's directions at end of v. 2., "Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae, id est Syncatabasis Hebraizans ..." (Francofurti ad Moenum : Sumtu Johannis Davidis Zunneri, Cassitero Joh. Phil. Andreae, 1684; 70 p. at end of v. 2, pt. 2), has special t.p. Cf. Faber du Faur., and Includes index.
- Publisher:
- Typis Abrahami Lichtenthaleri
- Subject (Topic):
- Cabala, Occultism, and Cabala and Christianity
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kabbala denudata, seu, Doctrina hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica atque theologica : opus antiquissimae philosophiae barbaricae variis speciminibus refertissimum ...
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
- Published / Created:
- 9 November 1491.
- Call Number:
- Incunabula +Heb-4 (Goff)
- Image Count:
- 940
- Description:
- Joseph ben Joshua Lorki and Nathan ben Eliezer ha-Me'ati, translators. and Yale med copy imperfect: 16 of the total 478 leaves wanting.
- Publisher:
- Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Arab and Hygiene
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Kanon : (Canon medicinae, Lib. I-V).
- Creator:
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
- Published / Created:
- 313 [1553]
- Call Number:
- K8 M85 +fx553
- Image Count:
- 385
- Alternative Title:
- Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn. Hebrew
- Description:
- Samuel ibn Tibbon's translation; with the commentaries of Ibn Shem Tov, Profiat Duran and Asher Crescas., Signatures: 1⁶ 2⁸ 3-31⁶., BEIN K8 M85 +fx553 copy 1: Censor's manuscript signatures at end: Fuit correctus pr[aese]ns liber p[er] me subsignatu[m] fr[ater] Paulus vicecomes; Ego Cyprianus Vbertus inqu[isito]r. The censored passages are mostly legible. Without the two leaves containing the Beʾur ʻinyan sheni ḳuyam of Moses Provinciale., and BEIN K8 M85 +fx553 copy 2: 30 cm.; censor's manuscript signature at end: Gio[vann]i Dominico Carretto 1617; with the two leaves by Moses Provinciale (inserted preceeding leaf [gimel]).
- Publisher:
- Ḳornilyo Adil Ḳind and קורנילייו אדיל קינד
- Subject (Topic):
- Philosophy, Jewish, Philosophy, Medieval, Judaism, and Hebrew language
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moreh nevukhim, מורה נבוכים
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 650
- Image Count:
- 176
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a miscellany. The manuscript seems to be a compilation organized, corrected and expanded by a single person specialized in pharmacology and medicine and interested in natural history, encyclopedical knowledge and history
- Description:
- In Latin with some Czech (?), German, and Hebrew., Watermarks: crown (var. Briquet 4616?), circles (var. Briquet 3194?), bull's head (?)., Script: Copied by various scribes, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria or Currens in various sizes, often very small; ff. 127r-143r, 7 are in a markedly different, larger form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria., The decoration is unevenly spread: heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red. On ff. 162-170 alternance of red and green initials, on f. 162r flourished initial in the same colours. Artt. 21 and 22 are not illustrated, although the text mentions figurae., At many places the paper is deteriorated by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment. A bifolium from a German manuscript in Gothica Cursiva, worn and stained, lined with a German document on parchment in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior/Recentior. Leather spine stiffener with ornamental stitching.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, Natural history, and Pharmacology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pharmacological etc. miscellany