- Creator:
- Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1610]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 47
- Image Count:
- 313
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Michael Sendivogius, Novum lumen chymicum & Parabola, translated into German. 2) De lapide philosophico et eius praeparatione, in German. 3) Alchemical recipes, in German, beginning with a brief description of alchemical implements and vessels in Latin. 4) Via veritatis, in German
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: Written in a rather upright Fraktur, with Latin words and passages in italic cursive., Six pen-drawn illustrations on ff. 107v-108v., Watermark: an armorial shield at margins and cut, not identified., and Binding: Original limp parchment fashioned from a leaf taken from a French (?) manuscript, ca. 1300, containing canon law fragments written in two columns in a formal Littera parisiensis, with glossae in a less formal hand, with section marks in red and blue, rather worn; pale red edges. Preserved in a modern marbled board solander case with tan oasis back by Carolyn Horton.
- Subject (Name):
- Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Natural history, Pre-Linnaen works, and German literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novum lumen chymicum and Parabola
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 650
- Image Count:
- 176
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a miscellany. The manuscript seems to be a compilation organized, corrected and expanded by a single person specialized in pharmacology and medicine and interested in natural history, encyclopedical knowledge and history
- Description:
- In Latin with some Czech (?), German, and Hebrew., Watermarks: crown (var. Briquet 4616?), circles (var. Briquet 3194?), bull's head (?)., Script: Copied by various scribes, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria or Currens in various sizes, often very small; ff. 127r-143r, 7 are in a markedly different, larger form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria., The decoration is unevenly spread: heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red. On ff. 162-170 alternance of red and green initials, on f. 162r flourished initial in the same colours. Artt. 21 and 22 are not illustrated, although the text mentions figurae., At many places the paper is deteriorated by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment. A bifolium from a German manuscript in Gothica Cursiva, worn and stained, lined with a German document on parchment in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior/Recentior. Leather spine stiffener with ornamental stitching.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, Natural history, and Pharmacology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pharmacological etc. miscellany