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Alchemical and medical miscellany
Title
Alchemical and medical miscellany.
Created
Germany, [ca. 1475]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 99 + ii : paper ; 283 x 184 (195 x 135) mm.
Language
Latin; German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
Notes
Watermarks: Two batches of unidentified paper watermarked with a gothic "P," the mark plain and smaller in one batch, larger and surmounted by a trefoil in the other.
Script: Neatly written in a gothic cursive hand.
Large capitals in red at text divisions, sometimes with slight pen ornament, other capitals stroked red throughout, fancy ascenders on top lines transgressing the upper rules and stroked red, similar descenders occasionally below the bottom bordering line, usually not colored.
Binding: Modern three-quarter binding of light brown buckram, plain brown niger back and corners, the back with five (false?) raised bands, gilt-lettered in the second compartment from the top, ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI, and at the foot of the spine, "AB. 1460". Plain edges.
In Latin and German.
Provenance
Denis Duveen, acquired from Dr. Ernst Weil (bookseller), London; Mellon MS 118, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of a collection of the works of Nicolaus, mostly related to medicine. In addition the codex has interesting lists of substances in Latin and German, as well as a tract on the distillation of brandy.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2011
References
Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 15.
Alchemical and Medical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Alchemical and Medical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
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