Figurae instrumentales Testamenti

Published/Created:

Italy
[ca. 1400 and ca. 1500]

Physical Description:

ff. 12 : parchment ; 245 x 170 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms632.htm

Notes:

Manuscript on parchment of 1) Ps.-Raymundus Lullus, Figurae instrumentales Testamenti: Diagrams and tables related to the Testamentum, a treatise of the Lullian alchemical corpus. 2) Recipes for obtaining the philosophical stone and the magisterium.
Art. 1 is written by one scribe in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, with cursive x and cursive final s. Art. 2 was added by two scribes writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
The parchment is stained and worn due to folding and manipulation. The tables and diagrams are traced in brown or red ink. Except in the tables there is no ruling for the text. The text is written in brown and red ink. Unbound.

Topics:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Topics:

Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Diagrams
Manuscripts, Medieval

Format:

Mixed Material

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 632

Orbis Record:

9614623

Orbis Barcode:

39002092697862

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1369610

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

9998915

PID:

digcoll:3684657