[Alchemical compendium].

Abstract:

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.

Creator:

Hayniger, Georg.

Date:

1476

Description:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Identifier:

9957839383503681; (OCoLC)ocn798279726; (OCoLC)798279726; (PU)5783938-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Latin; German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500); Slavic languages

Provenance:

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.

Publisher:

[Vienna], [circa 1476]

Relation:

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Video orientation https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs382.html

Subject:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.; Alchemy.; Alchemy -- Bibliography.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Codices.; Diagrams.; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Manuscripts, Latin.; Manuscripts, German.; Manuscripts, Czech.; Manuscripts, Medieval.; Recipes.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

94 leaves : parchment and paper; 123 x 84 mm bound to 132 x 95 mm

Personal Name:

Baier, Johann David, former owner.; Fraenkel, Pierre, 1923- former owner.

Corporate Name:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

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 central 3 bifolia in parchment; gatherings 4-5 in paper; gathering 6 in paper except for outermost bifolium.; 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 red, orange, or blue ink; paragraph marks in red or blue ink in some parts of the manuscript.; Layout: Casual vertical bounding lines in ink on most pages.; Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v).

Physical Location:

LJS 382

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)