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Livre de la tres sainte trinite

Call Number: Mellon MS 74

Language: French
Date: [ca. 1700]
Subjects: Alchemy
Alchemy--Religious aspects--Christianity
Trinity
Genres: Manuscripts
Illuminations
Type of Resource: text
Description: Script: Calligraphically written in brown ink in a very clear, large cursive hand.
Watermarks: Paper watermarked with large fleur-de-lys with a cartouche, surmounted by a
crown, the letter "W" below, perhaps identical to Heawood 1845.
With illustrations added about 1875.
Binding: Nineteenth-century French citron polished calf, sides bordered with triple gold
rules, gold-stamped fleurons at the corners, back in compartments gold-stamped with small
tools, red morocco title label, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, the latter glued to
parchment flyleaves which appear to have come from an earlier binding of this volume;
mottled edges.
All 14 illustrations digitized. Parchment foliation includes interleaved blanks which were not
digitized.
Abstract: Manuscript on paper and parchment of a version in French of the German text, Das Buch
von der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, with close copies of the illuminations in two fifteenth-century
manuscripts. Contains illustrations that mix Christian symbolism, especially the Passion of
Christ, with alchemical symbolism, and also depict some apparatus.
Physical Description: ff. 212 + 28 : paper and parchment ; 396 x 261 (315 x 187) mm.
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