University of Pennsylvania, LJS 382
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS635
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 382
- Title:
- Alchemical miscellany
- Hayniger, Georg
- Place:
- Vienna
- Date:
- circa 1476
- Language:
- Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)
- Material:
- parchment and paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 94 leaves : parchment and paper ; 123 x 84 mm bound to 132 x 95 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Baier, Johann David
Fraenkel, Pierre, 1923-
Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957839383503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3wp9t73w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
