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Beinecke MS 309, Alchemical texts

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  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Languages: German, Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source

New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 309. Text(s): Alchemical texts. Description: ff. xii + 236 + xviiii - 18th century (?). Brown calf blind-tooled, edges gilt. Arms (unidentified) stamped on binding: on front, quarterly 1 and 4, barry of 6, 2 and 3, a lion rampant; inescutcheon, a bar fess impaled with barry of 6; the whole held by a two-headed eagle, displayed, below a crown. Back cover: barry of 8 impaled with a patriarchal cross on a hillock. - Purchased from C.A. Stonehill in 1963 with the Albert de Silver Fund. - Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 309.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

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1600-01-01T00:00:00ZGerman, LatinPublic digitized item

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