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Mellon MS 42 | | Description: ff. 153 + xiv - Original black morocco, the sides outlined with blind rules, gilt stamp of a lion passant on each cover, back with six raised bands, a flower ornament gold-stamped in each compartment of the backstrip, modern leather label now detached, original edges gilt and stamped, no traces of clasps and catches; backstrip repaired. - Denis Duveen, acquired from Dr. Ernst Weil (bookseller), London; Mellon MS 64, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965. - 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 42. | | Notes:-Manuscript on paper of Ioannes Fornerius Montalbanensis, De lapide philosophorum libellus ex antiquorum codicibus compilatus, anno 1572, with the beginning of a second book of text, left incomplete. Toward the close of Book I are found Greek and Latin versions of Hermes, Tabula smaragdina. Very likely a holograph of the author, Jean Fournier de Montauban, fl. 1555-1572. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 0 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/MellonMS42_47 | | Language: Latin; Greek Country: France Century: 16th | | View a detailed description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.mell042.htm |
| | Part 1: | | Description: - paper - 147 x 100 (113 x 75) mm. | | Country: France | Cardinal point: | | Region: France (Toulouse?) | City: | | Assigned Date: 1572. | Searchable Date Range: 1572 - 1572 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: Written by a single hand in a good humanistic italic sloping a little to the right. | | Notes: Occasional fairly good drawings of apparatus by the copyist, as on ff. 63v-64v, 70v-72v, and 77r-80r. Binding: Original black morocco, the sides outlined with blind rules, gilt stamp of a lion passant on each cover, back with six raised bands, a flower ornament gold-stamped in each compartment of the backstrip, modern leather label now detached, original edges gilt and stamped, no traces of clasps and catches; backstrip repaired. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: | | Author: Fournier de Montauban, Jean. | | Title: De lapide philosophorum libellus ex antiquorum codicibus compilatus 1572, including Hermes, Tabula smaragdina. | | Subjects: Hermes, Trismegistus.; Fournier de Montauban, Jean.; Alchemy--Early works to 1800.; Drawing--16th century.; Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.; | | Language(s): Latin; Greek | |
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