- 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:
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Alexander, of Aphrodisias
Aristotle
Averroës, 1126-1198
Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494
Zimara, Marco Antonio, active 15th century-16th century - Published / Created:
- MDLXVIII [1568]
- Call Number:
- 2013 592
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- De mirabilibus mundi., De secretis mulierum., Liber aggregationis., Problemata Alexandri Aphrodisiei., and Problemata Aristotelis ac philosophorvm medicorvmquè complurium, ad varias quaestiones cognoscendas, & ad naturalem philosophiam discutiendam maximè spectantia
- Description:
- From title page verso: Marci Antonii Zimarae Sanctipertrinatis problemata his addita, vna cum trecentis Aristotelis & Auerrois Propositionibus, suis in locis insertis -- Alexandri Aphrodisei, Super questionibus nonnullis physicis, solutionum liber, Angelo Politiano interprete -- Item Alberti cognomento Magni De secretis mulierum, tractatus huic materiae non inconueniens -- Eiusdem De virtutibus herbarum, lapidum & animalium quorundam libellus -- Praeter haec De mirabilibus mundi ac de quibusdam effectibus causatis à quibusdam animalibus., Ownership inscription of Bernhardus Pellion(?) of Wiesen dated 1589. Some scattered manuscript notes and underlinings in first two gatherings., and Signatures: A-P⁸ (P8 verso blank).
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle and Pellion, Bernhardus--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine--Early works to 1800, and Physiology--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Problemata Aristotelis ac philosophorum medicorumquè complurium, ad varias quaestiones cognoscendas, & ad naturalem philosophiam discutiendam maximè spectantia : cum aliis quibusdam quorum catalogum sequens pagina indicabit.