Manchester. The John Rylands Library, German MS 3
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- German MS 3
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- Date
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- 18th century
- Language
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- German
- Title
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- Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften
- Agent
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- Charles Franz Zimpel (1801-1879)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Zimpel, Chas. F
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- Preferred form
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
- Role
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- Former owner
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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:
170 folios Leaf height: 285 mm, width: 233 mm.
Binding:
Pigskin binding over wooden boards, gilt edges, contained within a leather satchel.
Decoration:
Written throughout in black and red ink, with thirty seven full-page coloured drawings.
Rubrication
Rubrication is marked throughout.
Initials
There are ornamented colour initials throughout the text.
Miniatures
37 full-page coloured drawings. Numerous coloured miniatures also decorate the text.
Manicules
There are detailed manicules in various colours.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands from James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library.
Layout:
Single column text.
Subject(s):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800
Abstract:
The text is written in black and red ink, illustrated with thirty seven full-page coloured drawings.
Material:
Paper
Provenance:
Zimpel, Chas. F. On folio 1, Gekauft im August 186[3?] von Joh. Scheible, Antiquar, in Stuttgart: Chas. F. Zimpel.
Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
Note(s):
On a front fly-leaf, the stamp of Carl Helf, second-hand bookdealer, of Vienna.
Technique(s):
Handwriting; Painting (image-making)
Medium:
Ink
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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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