- 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:
- Herbert, William, 1778-1847
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 573
- Collection Title:
- Henry William Herbert Collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | HERBERT, Henry William: Objects, photographs, drawings, etc.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Name):
- Forester, Frank, 1807-1858 and Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Butterflies drawn by W. Herbert Dean of Manchester
- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1849-50
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 12
- Image Count:
- 161
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Description:
- In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately by the cataloger., Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West., and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions, in at least one case on the same page.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portfolio of original drawings