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Alchemical compendium. LJS 382
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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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.

Physical Description

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.

Layout

Casual vertical bounding lines in ink on most pages.

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.

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.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.

Ms. codex.

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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Keywords
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Vienna

Date

Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).

Binding

Modern parchment.

Language

Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)

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.

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Place of Origin

Vienna

Date

Written in or near Vienna, ca. 1476 (latest date in manuscript, f. 51r).

Language

Latin, with some passages in German (f. 10v, 20v-21r, 40v-43v, 83v-84v, 91r-93v) and Czech (f. 11v, 26v-28v)

Provenance

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Formerly owned by P. Fraenkel

Formerly owned by Johann David Baier, preacher at the Neuenspital zum Heiligen Geist

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Manuscript Overview

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.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.

Ms. codex.

Script note

Written in semi-Gothic script, in the hand of Georg Hayniger (f. 6v, 9r, 11r).

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Keywords
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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