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Harley MS 5403
- Record Id:
- 040-002051249
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051249
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00039c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5403
- Title:
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Alchemical tracts; German treatise on the transmutation of the elements; alchemical recipes
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-15v: Alchemical tracts in Latin.
ff. 16r-37r: A German treatise on the transmutation of the elements.
f. 37v-38r: An alchemical recipe by Johannes Ediling.
ff. 38v-56v: Alchemical tracts in Latin.
ff. 56v-59v: Tracts in German by Nicholaus of Breslau.
ff. 60r-72v: Alchemical tracts in Latin and German including several recipes on strips of paper (ff. 66r, 67r-67v).
ff. 73r-74v: An alchemical recipe titled: Practica Domini Cimonis Treverensis Archiepiscopi.
ff. 75r-91v: Alchemical tracts in Latin.
ff. 92r-92v: An alchemical recipe.
ff. 93r-100r: An alchemical tract.
ff. 100r-107v: A collection of alchemical recipes including 'Chemisches Recepte per Dominum Nycolaum de Birkenvelt' in German and Latin.
ff. 108r-112v: Alchemical recipes.
Decoration:
Numerous drawings of alchemical instruments and processes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051249", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5403: Alchemical tracts; German treatise on the transmutation of the elements; alchemical recipes" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051249 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5403 : Alchemical tracts; German treatise on the transmutation of the elements; alchemical recipes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5405]/040-002051249
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- German, Middle High
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper
Dimensions: 215 x 146 mm
Foliation: ff. 112 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
?Nicholas of Cues (b. 1401, d. 1464), bishop of St Brixen in Tyrol in 1450, cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Mosel: left his entire library to the hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464.
?The Hospital of St Nicholas, Cues, on the Moselle (Germany).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724 ), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), III (1808), p. 265.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)