[Alchemical miscellany]
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Description
- Title
- [Alchemical miscellany]
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1550]
- Publication Place
- [Genoa?]
- Abstract
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Compiled by Johannes Baptista F----- probably a Genoese connected with the Franciscan Order.
Front pastedown: [This page and the recto of the facing front flyleaf are covered with small ink drawings of alchemical apparatus, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, similar equipment, as well as a ""Bain-Marie"" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled. Verso of the front flyleaf is blank.]
Paper codex in Latin, Italian, and Spanish
- Description
-
In case with original, badly wormed, binding and endpapers.
Written throughout by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-sixteenth-century italic. - Extent
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[277] ff.
205 x 150 mm.
ill. - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Latin
Spanish; Castilian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 36
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Drawings
Illustrations
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--16th century - Material
- paper
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic)
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Alchemy--Early works to 1800
Drawing--16th century
Italian poetry--16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Witten, Laurence C. and Pachella, Richard. Alchemy and the Occult: A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts from the Collection of Paul and Mary Mellon. Volume Three: Manuscripts, Mellon MS 36.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878814
- Object ID (OID)
- 2037173
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mell036.htm