Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.446

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  • Autre forme de la cote :
    • LONDON. Wellcome Institute for the history of Medicine Library, 446
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.446
    • LONDON, Wellcome Institute for the history of Medicine Library, 446
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.446
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.446
    • Wellcome Library, MS.446
  • Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date de fabrication :
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; lxxii ff. + 5 inserted leaves 4to. 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 cm. Limp vellum covers, from a Deed of Sale in Latin, dated 1394. Five unfoliated leaves, written by a different hand, have been inserted between f. xxxviii and f. xxxix; thoe whole MS. has now been refoliated in pencileave The upper part of folio lvi has been cut away, some corners and margins frayed.

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Notes

Source des données : Jonas

  • Voir le catalogue du W. I. : "Ymage de vie. Replication. Alchemical processes and receipts, in French and Latin." etc.

Source des données : Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Anonymous, Ymage de vie, plus miscellaneous alchemical receipts

    Contents

    1. ff. 1r-60r Anonymous Ymage de vie

    f. 1r Cy commence le liure appelle ymage de vie trait des secrez des philosophes sur la fleur dalkemie. Cest assauoir sur le elixir de la grantmedecine des philosophes ... f. 60r Et aussi tu trouueras toute la commixtion vraye par la table en la figure que dessus est escripte. deo gratias.

    This alchemical text is medical in nature, and its purpose is to assist in producing the elixir for long life. See Geneviève Dumas, 'Ymage de vie: un vade mecum pour realiser la 'perfection des imparfaiz' (in forthcoming vol. ed. Nicholas Weill-Parot and Catherine Verna)

    ff. 60v-62r blank.

    2. ff. 62v-65v Figures of alchemical apparatus.

    3. ff. 66r-72v 'Du premier levain', and other receipts and processes, by a different hand.

    f. 68r Cy commence la preparation ... f. 72v ... finis laus Deo.

    f. 73r-v blank.

    ff. 74r-77v Similar receipts, etc., in Latin by another hand. A transcript [19th cent.] of the beginning of the first work (12 ll.) is inserted.

  • Purchased at Sotheby's 12/5/1914, Lot 15.

Bibliographie

  • Dumas, Geneviève. 'Ymage de vie: un vade mecum pour realiser la 'perfection des imparfaiz' (in forthcoming vol. ed. Nicholas Weill-Parot and Catherine Verna)

    Pereira, Michela. The Alchemical Corpus attributed to Ramon Lull (London: The Warburg Institute, 1989), p. 89.

    Pereira, Michela. 'Alchemy and the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Late Middle Ages', Speculum 74 (1999), p. 343 n. 37.

    Singer, D. W. Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland Dating before the Sixteenth Century (Brussels: Maurice Lamertin, 1928-1931), no. 276.

    Taavitsainen, Irma. 'Science', A Companion to Chaucer ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), p. 392.

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