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Alchemical miscellany
Title
Alchemical miscellany.
Created
North Italy (perhaps Pisa?), [ca. 1542 and later]
Physical Description
ff. 119 : paper ; 225 x 162 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Watermarks: 1) crossed arrows surmounted by a six-pointed star; 2) crossed keys in a cartouche, neither identified with certainty.
Script: Written in several different italic cursive hands.
Binding: Original, north Italian. Black leather, the sides outlined in blind rules, a rectangular panel on each cover ruled in gold with a square Arab knot tool gold-stamped outside each corner of the panel, traces of holes for four thong ties on each cover, the backstrip divided into five compartments by raised bands, a gold-stamped cinquefoil in each compartment, the back and sides repaired, edges stained black. Front and back pastedowns: parchment fragments of a 12th-century Italian codex, probably a Gospel Lectionary, containing an extract from the Gospel of St. John written in Latin in a Rotunda antiquior hand.
In Latin, Greek, and Italian.
Provenance
Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 113 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 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Rhemigius Burgensis, Quaestio de medio demonstrationis termino. 3) Simone Porzio, De animae immortalitate quaestio. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Dialogus de coniugii claritate. 5) Alchemy and recipes, in Latin. 6) Properties of various fruits and nuts, in Italian verse, and Seasons for planting, in Italian prose. 7) Notes on logic, provenance of elements of this manuscript, and a game of divination.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2011
References
Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 32.
Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Italy - 16th century.
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