Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825

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Label

Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825

Inclusive dates

1500-1825

Creator

• Hall, Manly P., (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990

Contributor

• Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795
• Bacstrom, Sigismond
• Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624
• Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622
• Ripley, George, d. 1490?

Subject

• Alchemy
• Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795 -- Library
• Hermetism
• Freemasonry -- Symbolism
• Scroll (information artifact)
• Occultism
• Rosicrucians
• Freemasons

Genre

• Scroll (information artifact)

Summary

Bound in 68 vols., 243 manuscripts on the subjects of alchemy, hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, and related arts.

Action

• Photographed, preconservation (color slides);
• Made from pre-conservation color slides;
• Photographed in full for surrogate copies (prints and color transparencies);
• transferred to library

Additional physical form

Photographic surrogates available for the Ripley Scroll (box 33) and the two triangular masonic mss. (Ms. 209, Ms. 210).

Cataloging source

CMalG

Citation source

Hogart, Ron Charles. Alchemy, a comprehensive bibliography of the Manly P. Hall Collection of books and manuscripts

Summary expansion

The collection includes most notably: a 16th century Ripley scroll combining painted illustration with an alchemical poem by Ripley; a 17th century French manuscript copy of Michael Maier's "Atalanta fugiens"; a collection of emblematic and mystical drawings and illuminations after Jacob Böhme; an 18th century Pennsylvania Dutch manuscript of Rosicrucian cosmological charts and symbolical images; an 18 volume collection of manuscripts, most translated into English and named after 18th century Dutch Rosicrucian Dr. Sigismond Bacstrom; a collection of 30 manuscripts bound in one volume, reputed to have come from the library of Count Cagliostro; two triangular masonic manuscripts; an early 17th century illuminated Neapolitan manuscript charting the search for the philosopher's stone