Atalanta running, that is, new chymicall emblems relating to the secrets of nature.

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Title: Atalanta running, that is, new chymicall emblems relating to the secrets of nature.
Creator: Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622
Contributor: Maier, Michael,--1568?-1622
Published / Created: [1618 or after]
Publication Place: England (?),
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens, translated into English from the 1618 German edition.
Description: Binding: Recent binding of marbled paper boards, polished calf back, top edge cut and gilt, other edges plain and original.
First two and last four leaves are of different, probably eighteenth-century, paper, probably binder's sheets used in an earlier binding of the volume.
In English.
Mellon MS 88, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Script: Written by a single copyist in English secretary and italic hands.
Watermarks: 1) Strasbourg lily with initials "WR" and countermarked "IHS" with a cross ascending from the horizontal of the central letter, very similar to Churchill 401 (dated 1625), but without initials on the countermark. 2) A large, crowned fleur-de-lys and with a countermark "VI," not identified.
Extent: ff. 86 : paper ; 336 x 230 (307 x 163) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Maier, Michael,--1568?-1622
Subject (Topic): Alchemy--Early works to 1800
Chemistry--Early works to 1800
Natural history--Pre-Linnaen works

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Citation: Michael Maier, Atalanta Running. 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 48.