- 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:
- 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
- Creator:
- Arndt, Johann, 1555-1621
- Published / Created:
- 1798 September 18-25
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 136
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Das zweite Silentium Dei in Königs Salomonis des Weisen paradiessischen Lustgarten
- Description:
- With passages also written in cipher script.
- Publisher:
- by Gottfried Klaussen(?)
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das zweyte Silentium Dei in Königs Salomonis des Weisen paradiessischen Lustgarten
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 16
- Image Count:
- 85
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie, anonymously translated into German.
- Description:
- Binding: Original reddish brown polished leather over finely beveled wooden boards, troughs for two clasps and two spikes on front cover, each cover with five nipplelike wrought brass bosses, one at each corner and one in the center, the lower cover with two large brass roundels used to fasten the now-missing strap ties which emerged from the lower fore-edge; sides ruled to a simple geometric pattern, back with raised bands, the clasps now missing and the hinges cracked, but the binding sound., Headings and capitals (a few decorated) in red throughout., and Script: Written by a very fine and bold German gothic cursive hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Johannes,--de Rupescissa,--ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- 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 > De consideratione quinte essentie
- Creator:
- Heinrich, von St. Gallen, fl. 1371-1397
- Published / Created:
- 1475
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 760
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Passionstraktat; Prayers
- Published / Created:
- 1562
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 40
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
- Description:
- Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled Kunstbuechlein]