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Mellon MS 37, De consideratione quinte essentie

by de Rupescissa Johannes

  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Languages: English, Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Mellon MS 37. Text(s): De consideratione quinte essentie. Description: ff. iii + 48 - Fourteenth century, original, English. Sheepskin or deerskin over shaped wooden boards with somewhat later rebacking of similar material, from the Franciscan convent of Babwell outside the North gate of Bury Saint Edmunds, single thong strap and metal stake missing from covers, modern leather title label. Pressmarks "12" and "24" on slips of paper glued to backstrip. Original parchment pastedown and flyleaf at beginning, pastedown only at end. - Denis Duveen, acquired from Herbert Reichner (bookseller), New York; Mellon MS 117, 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 37.

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

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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

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