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Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei
Call Number: Mellon MS 1
Creator: Apollonius, of TyanaLanguage: Latin
Date: [ca. 1225]Subjects: Incantations
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New HavenMedieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke LibraryAlchemy
Genres: Manuscripts, Medieval--France--13th century.--localIlluminated manuscriptsIllustrationsMarginalia
Type of Resource: mixed materialDescription: Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute,
with various additions by similar and later hands.Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slightextensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams anddrawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a partof the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v.Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cutfrom the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewingpenetrating the back.
Abstract: Fifteen pages of largely diagrammatic drawings, approximately thirty-six in all, depending onhow their relationships are interpreted (the text calls for thirty-two), are found from f. 10v to f.17v, most of them accompanied by labels and the texts of prayers consisting of long seriesof invented names with exotic sounds written in a minute hand in brown ink, while thedesigns themselves are throughout in red. The text of the manuscript also includesnumerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which adirect approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscriptalso includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.
Physical Description: ff. 18 : parchment ; 259 x 165 (203 x 133) mm.Rights: More about permissions and copyright
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