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Alchemical miscellany
Title
Alchemical miscellany.
Created
France (?), [ca. 1510]; 1775.
Physical Description
ff. i + 35 + 12 + i : paper ; 290 x 200 (200 x 120) mm.
Language
Latin; French
Notes
Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right.
Part I: Headings in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
In Latin and French.
Provenance
Denis Duveen; Mellon MSS 112 and 114, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2011
References
Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 26.
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.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - France - 16th century.
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