Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
Description:
Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Borcht, Pieter van der, 1545-1608 Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585 Kampen, Geeraard Jansen van, active 1564-1589 Nicolai, Arnaud
Published / Created:
1568
Call Number:
1991 328
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forum et coronariarum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia.
Description:
Illustrations: 107 woodcuts by A. Nicolai and G. J. Van Kampen after P. van der Borcht. Publisher's device on title page., Includes index., Nissen: Botanische Buchillustration, no. 514. Hunt: Catalogue, I, 101. Funck: Livre belge à gravures, 306. Delen: Gravure dans les anciens Pays-Bas, 11(1), 83, 109, 127., and Signatures: A-V⁸.
Publisher:
Ex officina Christophori Plantini,
Subject (Name):
Rastelij, Jo. Bernardini--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800, Botany--Pre-Linnean works, and Wood-engraving, Dutch
Brooke, John, d. 1582 Crespin, Jean, d. 1572 Luther, Martin, 1483-1546. Deutung der greulichen Figur des Mönchkalbs Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560. Deutung der greulichen Figur des Papstesels
Published / Created:
1579
Call Number:
1989 252
Image Count:
27
Alternative Title:
Declaration of a popish asse., Deutung der zwei greulichen Figuren, Papstesel zu Rom und Mönchkalbs zu Freiberg in Meissen gefunden. English., and Interpretation of a moonkish calfe.
Description:
"A declaration of the monstrous figure of a popish asse ..." / by Philip Melancthon: leaves 1-11., "John Crespin unto the Christian reader": leaf 3., "The interpretacion of Martin Luther, of the monster, in the figure and lykenesse of a moonkish calfe ...": leaves 12-19; original title: Deuttung des Munchkalbs zu Freyberg., Imprint from colophon; imprint on title page reads: These books are to be sould in Powles Churchyard at the signe of the Parat., Running title for leaves 1-11: The declaration of a popish asse., Running title for leaves 12-19 [i.e. 18]: The interpretation of a moonkish calfe., and Translation of: De deux monstres prodigieuz ..., which is itself a translation of: Deutung der zwei greulichen Figuren, Papstesel zu Rom und Mönchkalbs zu Freiberg in Meissen gefunden.
Publisher:
Imprinted at London by Thomas East, dwelling by Paules Wharfe,