Sherwood, Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis (Hove: Brunner-Routledge, 2003). Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 26.Ĭyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901), II: Das British Museum mit einem anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, no. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Olms, 1979, first publ. 30-32.ĭeutsche Handschriften in England, ed. Įric John Holmyard, Alchemy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957), p. Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis, translated by Julius Kohn (London: Kegan Paul, 1920). The text was previously attributed to the legendary figure Salomon Trismosin.Ī Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. The text of the Splendor Solis is largely based on a German translation of the Aurora consurgens. The date 1582 is inscribed in gold in a roundel on f. 1785), duchess of Portland the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.įull digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.Įdward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b.
Mrs Priemer, niece of Johann Cyprianus: inscribed with her name by Edward Harley (f. 1723), German theologian: inscribed with his name (f.
1685): a manuscript similar to the Harley 3469 was seen by John Evelyn in the Whitehall Palace library, according to his diary entry for 2 September 1680, being described by him as follows: "There is also the Processe of the Philosophrs greate Elixir, represented in divers pieces of incomparable miniature but the Discourse is in high-Duth & a MSS' (see Wright (1972), p. Red leather with gold tooling endpapers of pink silk gilt edges.Ĭharles II, king of England (b. 1* + 2*+ 3*+ 49 (+ 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end)īM/BL in-house. Very large calligraphic initials in gold.
ALCHEMICAL MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FULL
22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold with full borders (ff.
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