Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English
Alternative Title:
Ripley Scroll
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, English, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing Middle English versions of several works by Rolle, including Emendatio vitae; Ego dormio; The Commandment; and Form of Living. Also contains a Middle English version of Walter Hilton's Mixed Life
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, Alchemy, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Ps.-Raymundus Lullus, Figurae instrumentales Testamenti: Diagrams and tables related to the Testamentum, a treatise of the Lullian alchemical corpus. 2) Recipes for obtaining the philosophical stone and the magisterium
Manuscript, on paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts related to geomancy, divination, alchemy, and astrology. The principal work is a Latin translation of the Geomancia of Alkardianus, usually attributed to Bernard Silvester. This ...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alkardianus. and Bernard Silvestris, active 1136.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Astrology, Divination, Geomancy, and Manuscripts, Medieval
"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 ...
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
Manuscript on paper and parchment of a version in French of the German text, Das Buch von der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, with close copies of the illuminations in two fifteenth-century manuscripts. Contains illustrations that mix Christian symbolism, e...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Religious aspects, Christianity, and Trinity
Manuscript on paper of Elias Cortonensis O.F.M., Lumen luminum, said according to this copy to have been composed in 1315, an erroneous date, and drawn from Saracen and Hebrew sources, translated into Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a church f...
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and th...
Description:
In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Science
