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Metadata

DS ID:

DS635

Shelfmark:

LJS 382

Title:

Alchemical compendium.

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

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).
Ms. codex.
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...
Binding: Modern parchment.
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...
Layout: Casual vertical bounding lines in ink on most pages.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), June 2000.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
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).
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.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

drawings (visual works)

recipes

Manuscripts, Czech

Manuscripts, Medieval

Alchemy--Bibliography

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.

Early works

Alchemy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957839383503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3wp9t73w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania