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2.
- Creator:
- Paracelsus, 1493-1541
- Published / Created:
- 1676
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 68
- Image Count:
- 336
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of writings by Paracelsus, speudonym of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast ab Hohenheim, 1493-1541, compiled by the pharmacist Georgius Schrotter in 1676.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth-century boards with rough calf back, worn, defective, and repaired, plain edges, probably an American binding.
- Subject (Name):
- Paracelsus,--1493-1541
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800 and Medicine--Early works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical and other writings.
3.
- 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 practic...
- 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.
- 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
4.
- Creator:
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Freelove, Robert
Jean, de Meun, d. 1305?
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 33
- Image Count:
- 277
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into Engli...
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
5.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1740]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 97
- Image Count:
- 344
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Blank pages not digitized.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--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 recipes
6.
- Creator:
- Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622
- Published / Created:
- [1618 or after]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 48
- Image Count:
- 193
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens, translated into English from the 1618 German edition.
- Description:
- Binding: Recent binding of marbled paper boards, polished calf back, top edge cut and gilt, other edges plain and original.
- Subject (Name):
- Maier, Michael,--1568?-1622
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Chemistry--Early works to 1800, and Natural history--Pre-Linnaen works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Atalanta running, that is, new chymicall emblems relating to the secrets of nature.
7.
- Creator:
- Yarmouth, Robert Paston, Earl of, 1631-1683
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb255
- Image Count:
- 283
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing 72 pages of medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas. Contents include many medical recipes, such as traditional herbal washes, broths, salves, oils and pills for specific ailments, including bald...
- Description:
- Almost entirely in English; several recipes in Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Nott, William, binder, Paracelsus,--1493-1541--Influence, Rogers, Anna,--active 1770-1777--Stamp, Yarmouth, Robert Paston,--Earl of,--1631-1683, and Yarmouth, Robert Paston,--Earl of,--1631-1683--Binding
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Chemistry--Early works to 1800, Cooking, English--Early works to 1800, Health--Early works to 1800, Iatrophysical school, Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800, Medicine--Early works to 1800, Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Recipes--Great Britain, Traditional medicine--Great Britain--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800, and Workshop recipes--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recipe book containing medical, chemical and household recipes and formulas, [circa 1670-1683].
8.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1775]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 121
- Image Count:
- 75
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text with illustrations of procedures pictured symbolically as taking place in flasks.
- Description:
- Binding: Modern English (?) binding of stiff parchment, the upper cover with a painting in colors closely copying the watercolor drawing which occurs as fig. XXIV on f. 27r of the manuscript. Plain edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thesaurus thesaurorum.
