Manchester. The John Rylands Library, German MS 1
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- German MS 1
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- Language
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- Middle High German
- Title
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- Alchemica (Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit | Vera scientia alchimiae)
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
- Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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- Description
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- Extent:
22 folios (14 + viii) Leaf height: 216 mm, width: 180 mm.
Binding:
Original binding of brown stamped leather over wooden boards; five bosses on each side, clasp.
Decoration:
Coloured drawings throughout of alchemical subjects. Notes appear in red and black ink.
Initials
Decorated initials in the text.
Miniatures
17 coloured illustrations. 2v: N1: a naked Queen stands before a tree in fruit with a bird perched just above her head, the sun is to her right, the moon to her left, more birds are to the sides; beneath her is distilling equipment.
3r: N2: a central monument from which a man leans pointing downwards, above are flasks, birds and stars; to the left stand six people and a lion, to the right a person cuts off the paws of another lion with a sword, watched by five people.
3v: N3: Separation and Conjunction for the Red Elixir: on the left two birds clasp their own tails to form a figure eight; on the right a naked king and queen embrace in a flask.
4r: N4: Elixir for the Red.
4v: N5: The Rebis - a winged hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left holds a sword in the right hand and a crown in the left; it stands on a two-headed beast which also has human faces on its underbelly.
5r: N6: Putrefaction Rebis - a winged hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left holds a coiled snake in the right hand and a cup containing three snakes in the left; it stands on a golden stone and a silver stone from which flow waters the feed the sun and moon respectively; a beast at the foot of the page drinks the waters.
5v: N7: The master, "Hermes" instructs five pupils how to make silver and gold.
6r: N8: "Solvirt die Corper zu Wasser" - in the centre a queen above a king; to the left four women bathe in a 'moon' fountain, to the right four men bathe in a 'sun' fountain.
7v: N10: a crowned mermaid pierces Christ with a spear, a naked woman stands between them; to the right is a furnace containing three flasks.
8r: N11: Der König und die Königin - a crowned hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left, carries a sceptre.
8v: N12: Forma Speculi Trinitae - Christ crucified, dressed in black with wings; above his crown sits a three-headed bird, in each hand is a crown on which sits a bird, at each foot are the head and shoulders of a man.
9r: N13: Figura Speculi Sancte Trinitatis - in the centre two men crown a woman, beneath is a shield on which a woman supports the crucified body of Christ; at the four corners are the symbols of the Evangelists.
13v: Generation of the Three Principles: coloured drawing of a distilling process.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands from James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library.
Subject(s):
Alchemy--Manuscripts; Elements
Abstract:
Alchemica is a fifteenth-century manuscript Illustrated with 17 coloured drawings and texts of alchemical subjects. Bavarian dialect.
Material:
Vellum
Provenance:
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
Additions:
Folio 1v, added notation.
Technique(s):
Drawing (image-making); Handwriting
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- Place
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- Germany
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- Germany
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- Allemagne
- Allemagne (?)
- Allemagne ?
- Deutschland
- Alemanya
- Alemania
- Duitsland
- Southwestern German region (?)
- Germany (Trier ?)
- Germany (Gladbach Abbey?)
- Germany (Tegernsee?)
- Cologne (?)
- [Germany]
- Germany, Nuremberg?
- Germany, Erfurt?
- Flanders; Germany
- Fritzlar? (Germany)
- Cologne? (Germany)
- Germany, Augsburg?
- Germany, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
- Germany, Würzburg (St. Kylian (?))
- Germany, Cistercian abbey of Eberbach (?)
- German, Eberbach, Cistercian abbey (?)
- Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian (?)
- Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian
- Germany, Lower Saxony, Corvey, Benedictine abbey (?) or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
- Germany, Würzburg, St. Kylian or Niederaltaich, Benedictine abbey
- Germany, Eberbach?
- Germany, Murbach
- Germany, Lower Saxony, Corvey?
- Germany, Fulda?
- Germany and Switzerland, Constance(?)
- Germany, Hirsau?
- Germany, Reichenau?
- Germany, Rhineland?
- Germany, Europe
- Germany, Cologne or Lower Saxony
- [Deutschland]
- Duitsland (?)
- Germania
- [Duitsland]
- [Duitsland?]
- Germania (?)
- Deutschland (I)
- Deutschland (II)
- Deuschland
- Deutschland (III)
- Deutschland (V)
- Deutschland (I, III, V)
- I./II. Deutschland
- I. Deutschland
- Alemanha
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