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2.
- 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
3.
- 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
4.
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Richard, de Fournival, fl. 1246-1260 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 2
- Image Count:
- 96
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a collection of practical alchemies and procedures, the earliest such manuscript in the Mellon collection. Contains texts transmitted from Arabic sources and what appear to be European additions to the literature and practice of alchemy. Includes the following identifiable texts: Rasis or Aristotle, Lumen luminum perfecti magisterii; Avicenna, Epistola ad Hasen; Geber, Liber deitatis sive divinitatis and Summa perfectionis magisterii; Rasis, De aluminibus et salibus, extracts; and Richard de Fournival, Opus Arturi, or De arte alchemica. and The codex is an important, early, and comprehensive collection of largely practical alchemies and procedures. It is also of special significance both because of its early copies of texts transmitted from Arabic sources and for what appear to be very early, independent, European additions to the literature and practice of alchemy.
- Description:
- Alternating red and blue capitals throughout, some headings in red, many capitals stroked red, slight filiform decoration to opening initial of the volume, the rubrics and decoration probably by one of the scribes or another closely related hand., Binding: Early, probably 15th century. Undecorated red-dyed hide over beveled wooden boards, four brass edgepieces on each cover attached with brass nails, two brass catches on upper cover, lightly chased brass and leather clasps on lower cover (all of the material of cut sheet-brass), back with six raised bands, repaired and rebacked, with modern leather title label. Used as pastedowns inside upper and lower cover are two leaves from a 14th-century Germanic (perhaps Netherlandish) manuscript on parchment containing plainsong written in Germanic neumes on five-line staves, the text in Gothica textualis formata, large gothic capitals in red or blue, one at top of lower pastedown in black and red slightly decorated. In all the staves but the last on the lower pastedown the center-line is stroked red and bears the clef sign; in the last, the fourth line from the bottom has these indications., Pastedowns inside both covers are two leaves from a 14th-century Germanic (perhaps Netherlandish) manuscript on parchment containing plainsong written in Germanic neumes on five-line staves, the text in Gothica textualis formata, large gothic capitals in red or blue, one at top of lower pastedown in black and red slightly decorated., Possibly written by Frater Bartholomaeus (of?) Ol-----, 1335, according to a later note at foot of f. 88v, Script: Written by three scribes all using similar, legible, and rather cursive forms of Gothica textualis; the first scribe wrote ff. 1r-64v, the second ff. 65r-77r1, 38, and the third the remainder., Written by three scribes all using closely similar, legible, and rather cursive forms of Gothica textualis, heavily abbreviated with standard forms., and Written space 184 x 116, 2 columns, 50-49-48 lines each.
- Subject (Name):
- Avicenna, 980-1037, Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294, Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Geber, 13th cent. Summa perfectionis magisterii, Razi, Abu Bakr Muh ammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?, Richard, de Fournival, fl. 1246-1260, and Saumaise, Claude, 1588-1653, provenance
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--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 miscellany
5.
- 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
6.
- 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
7.
- Creator:
- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274
- Published / Created:
- s. XIII 4/4 [ca. 1275-1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 175
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Bonaventure's Commentary on Book IV of the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, Germany. Cream colored pigskin, blind-tooled. Gilt edges. Green and cream endbands. Title on spine: "De septem/ Sacrament. Tract. Mst."., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, beige with foliage serif, red, against blue ground with white filigree, containing an apothecary (unguentarius) mixing ingredients in a mortar with two pestles. Numerous flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate in red with blue, and vice versa, or often plain initials in red or blue. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks, alternating red and blue, appear sporadically (ff. 1r-36v)., and Script: Written by several scribes in small gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
8.
- Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1069
- Image Count:
- 200
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Confortatorio per i condannati a morte, Florilegium, and Laudi
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Credo
9.
- Creator:
- Jordan von Martinsbuech, Christoff
- Published / Created:
- 1577
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 734
- Image Count:
- 368
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- On paper
- Subject (Geographic):
- Salzburg (Austria)--History--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Topic):
- Devices (Heraldry)--Europe--Early works to 1800 and German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica unnd Beschreibunge, was fur Bischove auch Ertzbischore das Hochloblich Ertzstifft und uralte Haubstat Saltzburg...
10.
- 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