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• Author/Creator:Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636.
  
• Title:Novum lumen chymicum and Parabola.
  
• Published/Created:Southern Germany or Austria (?), [ca. 1610]
  
• Physical Description:ff. 156 : paper ; 124 x 74 (97 x 70) mm.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Mellon MS 47
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
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• Notes:Script: Written in a rather upright Fraktur, with Latin words and passages in italic cursive.
  Six pen-drawn illustrations on ff. 107v-108v.
  Watermark: an armorial shield at margins and cut, not identified.
  Binding: Original limp parchment fashioned from a leaf taken from a French (?) manuscript, ca. 1300, containing canon law fragments written in two columns in a formal Littera parisiensis, with glossae in a less formal hand, with section marks in red and blue, rather worn; pale red edges. Preserved in a modern marbled board solander case with tan oasis back by Carolyn Horton.
  In German and Latin.
  Mellon MS 120, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
  
• Access and use:Material is open for research.
• Summary:Manuscript on paper containing 1) Michael Sendivogius, Novum lumen chymicum & Parabola, translated into German. 2) De lapide philosophico et eius praeparatione, in German. 3) Alchemical recipes, in German, beginning with a brief description of alchemical implements and vessels in Latin. 4) Via veritatis, in German.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• References:Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 47.
  
• Cite as:Michael Sendivogius, Novum Lumen Chymicum and Parabola. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Sendivogius, Michael, 1566-1636.
  Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
  Natural history--Pre-Linnaen works.
  German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.