- Creator:
- [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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Creator:
- Apollonius, of Tyana
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1225]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 1
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Fifteen pages of largely diagrammatic drawings, approximately thirty-six in all, depending on how their relationships are interpreted (the text calls for thirty-two), are found from f. 10v to f. 17v, most of them accompanied by labels and the texts of prayers consisting of long series of invented names with exotic sounds written in a minute hand in brown ink, while the designs themselves are throughout in red. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names. and Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.
- Description:
- Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Incantations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 525.6
- Collection Title:
- The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The decoration consists of 1- or 2-line initials in paint and liquid gold and a three-margin-outer border on f. 1r. On the same page two rectangular pictures (10 lines high, framed in gold and black ink placed in the text area, representing (1) St. Anthony holding a book and (2) St. Claude as a bishop, blessing.
- Description:
- Presented by James M. Osborn in memory of William R. Coats.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours, with miniatures of St. Anthony and St. Claudius
- Published / Created:
- 1835 Sept 13
- Call Number:
- Osborn d410
- Collection Title:
- [Journal], 1835
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript journal of a London wine merchants travels in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries during the summer and fall of 1835, accompanied as far as Switzerland by a boy, Alfonzo Pipon. The diary documents travel and hotel conditions; soc
- Subject (Geographic):
- Coblenz (Germany) and Rhine River.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tourism--Europe, Travelers writings, English., and Travelers.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Coblenz. Rhine
- Creator:
- Caspar Harttung vom Hoff
- Published / Created:
- 1557
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 38
- Image Count:
- 95
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Parchment and paper codex, ff. 87 of which f. 1-3 and 6-19 are of paper, the remainder of parchment, with modern pencil foliation throughout. and Personal commonplace book combining skillful drawings of apparatus, alchemical texts in German vernacular with noteworthy literary character--some of them in verse--and numerous practical procedures.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
- Subject (Name):
- Harttung vom Hoff
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das Vade mecum
- 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:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382 - Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 215
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
- Description:
- French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritual life --Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De civitate Dei
- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382 - Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 215
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
- Description:
- French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: II labelled IV., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritual life --Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De civitate Dei
- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382 - Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 215
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
- Description:
- French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: III labelled II., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritual life --Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De civitate Dei
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- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382 - Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 215
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
- Description:
- French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: IV labelled III., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritual life --Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De civitate Dei