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Metadata

DS ID:

DS635

Shelfmark:

LJS 382

Title:

Alchemical miscellany

Alchemical texts

Author:

Hayniger, Georg

Georg Hayniger WIKIDATA

Place:

Vienna

Vienna TGN

Date:

circa 1476

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)

Latin WIKIDATA

German WIKIDATA

Czech WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment and paper

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 94 leaves : parchment and paper ; 123 x 84 mm bound to 132 x 95 mm

Former Owner(s):

Baier, Johann David

Johann David Baier WIKIDATA

Fraenkel, Pierre, 1923-

Pierre Fraenkel WIKIDATA

Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster

Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment and paper, ii (modern paper) + 94 + ii (modern paper); 1-214 328 412 520 66; [1], 2-94; early foliation in ink, mostly lower right recto but occasionally lower left recto, lower center recto, or mid-right margin recto; occasional modern foliation in pencil corresponds to early foliation. Gatherings 1-2 in parchment; gathering 3 in paper except for outermost bifolium and...
Layout: Casual vertical bounding lines in ink on most pages.
Script: Written in semi-Gothic script, in the hand of Georg Hayniger (f. 6v, 9r, 11r).
Decoration: 6 drawings of laboratory apparatus, including alembics and furnaces (f. 16v, 17v, 18v, 20r, 25r, 25v-26r); marginal drawings of beakers and alembics (f. 55v, 57v, 62v); ontological diagram of processes and elements titled Arbor philosophiae, in red and black ink (f. 89r); frequent manicules of different styles, some in red ink or touched in red; section titles and highlights in...
Binding: Modern parchment.
Origin: Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).
Formerly owned by Johann David Baier, preacher at the Neuenspital zum Heiligen Geist (Church of the Holy Spirit, Nuremberg; armorial bookplate, inside upper cover); professor of theology at Jena in the early 1700s and in Altdorf (near Nuremberg) in the 1730s and 1740s.
Formerly held in the Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster, the library of the Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster (Kremsmünster, Austria), number CC 381, until at least 1965 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Mittelalterforschung).
Formerly owned by P. Fraenkel (ex libris stamp, first flyleaf; collation note in pencil, dated April 1999, inside lower cover); possibly Pierre Fraenkel of the Reformation Research Institute (Geneva, Switzerland).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 2000.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, German

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, Czech

recipes

Alchemy

Early works

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Alchemy--Bibliography

Medicine

Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957839383503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3wp9t73w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania