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Das vade mecum
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Title
Das vade mecum.
Created
Austria (Gastein), 1557.
Physical Description
ff. ii + 87 + ii : parchment and paper ; 105 x 85 (82-92 x 73-87) mm.
Language
German; Latin
Notes
Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF | VADE | MECUM | MANUSCRIPT | AUSTRIA 1557 |".
In German and Latin.
Provenance
Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Holograph manuscript on parchment and paper of Caspar Harttung vom Hoff of Gastein, Das Vade mecum, a commonplace book of alchemical and medicinal materials, consisting of mostly shorter prose and verse sections, often with excellent drawings, thirty-one in all, of alchemical equipment, written in 1557, and with additions written about fifty years later.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2011
References
Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 38.
Caspar Harttung vom Hoff, Das Vade Mecum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Caspar Harttung vom Hoff, Das Vade Mecum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Austria - 16th century.
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