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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.
Support: parchment and paper; Extent: 94 leaves : 123 x 84 mm. bound to 132 x 95 mm; 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.
Casual vertical bounding lines in ink on most pages.
Written in semi-Gothic script, in the hand of Georg Hayniger (f. 6v, 9r, 11r).
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.
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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Vienna
Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).
Modern parchment.
Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)
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.
Vienna
Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).
Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)
Formerly owned by Johann David Baier, preacher at the Neuenspital zum Heiligen Geist
Formerly owned by P. Fraenkel
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in semi-Gothic script, in the hand of Georg Hayniger (f. 6v, 9r, 11r).
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.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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