Script: Written by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless.

Extensive series of small ink drawings of alchemical vessels and equipment on the front flyleaves, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, with similar equipment, as well as a "Bain-Marie" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled.

Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing and earlier folding visible) from a document; plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Lapis philosophalis". Loose in cover and badly wormed.

In Latin, Italian, and Spanish.

Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 36.

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

Alchemy > Early works to 1800.

Drawing > 16th century.

Italian poetry > 16th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.