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1. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- June and July 1480.
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 19
- Image Count:
- 334
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the following mystical or speculative alchemies translated into French: Arnold of Villanova, Rosarius; Albertus Magnus, Compositum de compositis; and Ramon Lull, Clavicula. Alchemies in Latin by Raymundus Gaufridi, Roger Bacon (?), Nicholas, Johannes Pauper, John of Rupescissa, and the Duc de Berry (?). Also includes a long series of wholly practical procedures and recipes
- Description:
- In French and Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in a remarkably small and neat cursive gothic hand., No headlines, no color, no decoration, spaces left for some capitals with guide letters, a few drawings in the text or in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper boards with diced calf back, the backstrip in compartments with horizontal gilt fillets, lines of gilt small tools bordering the false bands, title label in the second compartment from the top gilt-lettered "REGNAULT". Early, probably original green edges. Hinges of the binding repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Glass painting and staining, Technique, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
2. Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, July 1735.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 735.07.00.01+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Rake's progress. Plate 7
- Description:
- Title from text engraved above image., Verses, attributed to John Hoadly, below image in three columns, four lines each: His hours of joy are fled with rapid speed, And scenes of anguish in a jail succeed ... Can his person from restraint enlarge., The seventh of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90., and "Plate 7."--Lower right below design.
- Publisher:
- Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell
- Subject (Name):
- Fleet Prison (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Children, Debt, Dramatists, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, Telescopes, and Unmarried mothers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in the Fleet Prison [graphic].
3. Confined in the Fleet Prison. [graphic]. Plate 7
- Published / Created:
- [between 1785 and 1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 785.00.00.126+ Box 210
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Copy of a room in the Fleet Prison; Tom sits at a table, to left, on which is a rejection letter from John Rich to whom he has submitted a play; his wife clenches her fists, the gaoler asks for garnish money and a boy asks payment for a tankard of ale; to left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt; she is supported by an older man with a beard who has dropped a sheet containing a scheme for paying the national debt (a reference to such a scheme put forward by Hogarth's father); in the background an alchemist works at a forge; with decorative border on either side; after Hogarth.--From another edition, British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- [Rake's progress]. Plate 7 and His Hours of Joy are fled with raipd speed, ...
- Description:
- Added title from Paulson., "Plate 7."--Lower right below design., Date range for publication based on form of publisher's name in imprint. "Robt. Sayer & Co." is found on prints published during Robert Sayer's final business period (1785-1794), following the Sayer & Bennett partnership (1774-1784) and preceding his death in 1794. See British Museum online catalogue., See: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 138., and Matted to: 34 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Fleet Prison (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Children, Debt, Dramatists, Jails, Poverty, Rake's progress, Telescopes, and Unmarried mothers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confined in the Fleet Prison. [graphic]. Plate 7
4. Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [12 March 1800]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
- Alternative Title:
- Searching for the philosophers stone
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 30 x 35 cm, on sheet 30.7 x 36.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 33 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Jews, Fireplaces, Bellows, Fraud, Laboratories, Mortars & pestles, and Thermometers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hocus pocus, or, Searching for the philosophers stone [graphic]
5. Penotus Palimbios, or, The Alchymists Enchiridion. In two parts : [21 lines] / The whole written in Latin long since by that Famous Helvetian Bernardus Penotus a Portu Sanctae Mariae Aquitani, and now faithfully Englished and claused by B.P. Philalethes [pseud.]
- Creator:
- B. P., philalethes
P., B., philalethes
Penot, Bernard Georges, d. 1617?
Philalethes, B. P. - Published / Created:
- 1692
- Call Number:
- Rs5 162
- Image Count:
- 57
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul’s Church-yard
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Penotus Palimbios, or, The Alchymists Enchiridion. In two parts : [21 lines] / The whole written in Latin long since by that Famous Helvetian Bernardus Penotus a Portu Sanctae Mariae Aquitani, and now faithfully Englished and claused by B.P. Philalethes [pseud.]
