Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.

Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right.

Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read.

In Latin and English.

Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 43.

Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Alchemy > Early works to 1800.

English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.