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1. Lumen luminum, etc.
- Creator:
- Elia, da Cortona, frate, -1253.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1525]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 29
- Image Count:
- 74
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a
- Description:
- In Latin, with Italian prologue.
- Subject (Name):
- Elia,--da Cortona, frate,---1253.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Ciphers--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 > Lumen luminum, etc.
2. Medical and alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 61
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany.
3. Alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 35
- Image Count:
- 526
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts from various alchemical and medical writers. Includes John of Rupescissa, Liber de confectione veri lapidis; and Arnold of Villanova, De perfectione operis alkimie. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 36.
- Description:
- In Latin, Italian, and Spanish.
- Subject (Name):
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. and Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Italian poetry--16th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
4. Alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 7
- Image Count:
- 222
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of alchemical texts, including works by Rasis, Roger Bacon, and Hermes. Though the Bacon text and one other are early practical alchemies, the contents are mainly speculative in character.
- Description:
- Binding: Modern. Parchment, cut from a leaf of a very large manuscript, probably a lectionary, written in a Rotunda antiquior hand, Italian, 12th century; writing on outer surface erased, printed paper label on backstrip., Book and chapter headings in red, rubrication, capitals stroked yellow, larger initials painted in red or blue with tracery ornament in the contrasting color (all decoration probably by the scribe; red headings in the scribe's hand, all other red decoration with ink of apparently identical composition)., Denis Duveen, acquired from Joseph Martini, 1938; Mellon MS 34, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written by one scribe in a very neat and regular prehumanistic hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294., Hermes, Trismegistus., and Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
- 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.