The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 30313

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9610

Shelfmark:

mssHM 30313

Title:

Ripley (?), alchemical scroll

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

second half of the 16th century

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In English

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (6 membranes) : parchment ; 3,247 x 392 mm

Former Owner(s):

Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958

Charles William Dyson Perrins WIKIDATA

Note:

Parchment, roll of 6 membranes. 196 lines of verse.
Written in England in the second half of the sixteenth century. A number of other rolls with variations of this text and with similar illustrations were produced around the same period. Written in an italic script, badly rubbed in some areas.
Four large illustrations in ink and watercolor, ca. 760 mm. in height. In the first (process for the White Stone), Aristotle (?) holding a large retort within which are 8 circles containing monks looking at human figures in glass bottles, each bottle being linked by a chain to a circle containing 2 men holding a book. In the second picture (process for the Red Stone), a fountain supported by a...
Belonged to C. W. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958). Acquired by the Huntington Library from Sothebys, 9 December 1958, lot 42 with a plate of the upper part of the second picture, showing the fountain.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

scrolls (information artifacts)

Alchemy

Ripley, George, -1490?

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1844832

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:30526/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens