LJS 382 Alchemical compendium
Title
Alchemical compendiumAuthors
- Hayniger, Georg
Other related names
- Baier, Johann David, former owner
- Fraenkel, Pierre, 1923-, former owner
Call number
LJS 382(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9957839383503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798279724
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783938
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)Origin
- Date
- circa 1476
- Place
-
Vienna
Summary
Collection of alchemical notes gathered by Georg Hayniger of Dormpoch, near Vienna. Includes recipes, with several for potable gold (aurus potabilis) and tincture of cinnabar (tinctura de cinobrio), suggesting a focus on medical applications of alchemy, and with some notes on efficacy; diagrams; and 2 lists of alchemical works (f. 2v-3r, 4v-5r), with references to authors such as Arnaldus de Villanova, Ramon Lull, Johannes de Rupescissa, and Albertus Magnus.
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Extent
94 leaves : 123 x 84 mm. bound to 132 x 95 mmFoliation
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 central 3 bifolia in parchment; gatherings 4-5 in paper; gathering 6 in paper except for outermost bifolium.Support
Parchment and paperBinding
Modern parchment.Layout
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 red, orange, or blue ink; paragraph marks in red or blue ink in some parts of the manuscript.
Script
Provenance
- 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 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.
Subjects topical
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Alchemy--Bibliography
- Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Diagrams
- Drawings
- Recipes
- Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
- Manuscripts, German--15th century
- Manuscripts, Czech--15th century
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
Keywords
- Anthology
- 15th century
- Drawing
- Diagrams
- Czech
- Alchemy
- Science -- Medicine
- Paper
- Austria
- Austrian
Licenses
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Decorations
- Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
- fol. 3v — Manicule, f. 3v
- fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
- fol. 6r — Manicule, f. 6r
- fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
- fol. 7r — Manicule, f. 7r
- fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
- fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
- fol. 10v — Manicule, f. 10v
- fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
- fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
- fol. 13v — Manicule, f. 13v
- fol. 15r — Manicule, f. 15r
- fol. 16v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 16v
- fol. 17v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 17v
- fol. 18v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 18v
- fol. 19r — Manicule, f. 19r
- fol. 20r — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 20r
- fol. 21r — Manicule, f. 21r
- fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
- fol. 22v — Manicule, f. 22v
- fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
- fol. 25r — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 25r
- fol. 25v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 25v
- fol. 26r — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 26r
- fol. 26v — Manicule, f. 26v
- fol. 27v — Manicule, f. 27v
- fol. 28r — Manicule, f. 28r
- fol. 28v — Manicule, f. 28v
- fol. 31r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 31r
- fol. 34r — Manicule, f. 34r
- fol. 34v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 34v
- fol. 35r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 35r
- fol. 35v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 35v
- fol. 39r — Manicule, f. 39r
- fol. 40r — Manicule, f. 40r
- fol. 41v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 41v
- fol. 48v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 48v
- fol. 51r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 51r
- fol. 54r — Manicule, f. 54r
- fol. 54v — Manicule, f. 54v
- fol. 55v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 55v
- fol. 57r — Manicule, f. 57r
- fol. 57r — Drawing, Cross, f. 57r
- fol. 57v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 57v
- fol. 57v — Manicule, f. 57v
- fol. 62v — Drawing, Alchemical apparatus, f. 62v
- fol. 62v — Manicule, f. 62v
- fol. 65r — Manicule, f. 65r
- fol. 65r — Drawing, Cross, f. 65r
- fol. 69v — Manicule, f. 69v
- fol. 72v — Manicule, f. 72v
- fol. 74v — Manicule, f. 74v
- fol. 75v — Manicule, f. 75v
- fol. 76v — Manicule, f. 76v
- fol. 77v — Manicule, f. 77v
- fol. 78r — Manicule, f. 78r
- fol. 82v — Manicule, f. 82v
- fol. 84v — Manicule, f. 84v
- fol. 89r — Diagram, f. 89r
- fol. 89v — Manicule, f. 89v
- fol. 90v — Manicule, f. 90v
- fol. 94v — Manicule, f. 94v
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