Manuscript on paper of Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wassern
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In German., Script: copied by a single scribe writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Formata with some Fractura features. Red underlining and red heightening of majuscules and paragraph marks., Von den ausgebrannten Wassern by Michael Puff von Schrick. The manuscript also includes a table of body parts and diseases and the waters to be used as remedies for them., and Binding: plain parchment binding over cardboard, by P. Dusel, 1998.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Schrick, Michael Puff von, approximately 1400-1473.
Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources
Description:
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew., Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler., Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds., With additions in German and Dutch., Bound in 2 volumes., and Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources
Description:
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew., Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler., Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds., With additions in German and Dutch., Bound in 2 volumes., and Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
Manuscript on paper of a large quantity of alchemical recipes and procedures, relating above all to metallurgy and transmutation. With Alchimie und Bergwerck; and German translations of John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and Ramon Lull, Extracts from Experimenta and Testamentum novissimum
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In German and Latin., Watermarks: 1) a long-stemmed cross above a bull's head; 2) a six-lobed arc above and each lobe surmounted by a three-lobed cross; 3) a crown. All with vertical chain marks, trimmed, not identified., Script: Very neat and clear gothic cursives, captions by the same hand, written in two parts, the second beginning at f. 201r., Some red sentence-strokes and underlining; red captions and chapter headings with minimal elaboration, carefully laid out on the page, also pen line-fillers at end of each section, as needed for text spacing. A penned brown and red crown as folk symbol at left margin of f. 135r. Infrequent sketches of alchemical vessels in brown or red at side margins, some very slightly trimmed., and Binding: Original blind-stamped brown calf over beveled wooden boards, the sides paneled in vertical patterns of roll tools, two brass catches on upper cover, remains of brass attachments for clasps on the lower; the original backstrip with three raised bands laid down; plain edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, New York, and with a leather title label on the backstrip supplied by her.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, Metallurgy, and Transmutation (Chemistry)
BEIN 1975 +157: Imperfect: pt. 9-11 in duplicate; t.-p. of v.1 wanting., BEIN 1976 +337: 33 cm. Imperfect: last leaf (Tabula erratorum) mutilated., BEIN 1998 +75: Imperfect: v. 3 (pts. 21-24) only. 33 cm., Title varies., Vol. 3 (pts. 21-24) has title: Neuer Welt-Bott. Das ist, Allerhand so lehr-als geist-reiche Brief ..., Imprint varies. Title-page to v.4 and to parts 26-36 have imprint: Wien, L.J. Kaliwoda., Each pt. has separate t.-p. and paging, except pts. 21-22 and 23-24, which are double pts., The work is also divided into five tomes, tome 1-4 with independent t.-p.'s. Tome 1 comprising pts. 1-8, tome 2: pts. 9-16, tome 3: pts. 17-24, tome 4: pts. 25-32, tome 5: pts. 33-36. Tome 5 has half-title: Des neuen Welt-Botts tomus V. Erste Halbscheid, it is apparently not known whether there was a second pt. to it., "Mostly taken from unpublished manuscripts. Only the smaller part has been translated from the "Lettres edifiantes." -- cf. Sabin 52376., and Compiled after Stöcklein's death by Peter Probst and Franciscus Keller.
Publisher:
Verlegts Philipp/ Martin/ und Johann Veith seel. erben
Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Calligraphically written by a highly skilled hand using a variety of Fraktur, secretary cursive, and italic scripts., Three-column table of alchemical symbols on last leaf. No color, but progressively frequent use of alchemical symbols; full-page drawing of a double coat of arms with inscriptions on first front flyleaf recto, and a small drawing at foot of f. 53v, of a woman apparently scratching herself with the legend "The flea bites me," both probably by the same skilled hand, possibly the copyist of the codex., Somewhat damaged, especially at beginning, by water-staining and fraying, with some leaves wanting, but the remainder entirely legible and without substantial losses., and Binding: Original limp parchment stained olive green, now worn and with most of the spine, originally with three bands, missing; plain edges. Preserved in a modern box of boards with linen back, modern leather title label added.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Metallurgy
BEIN GER37: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., CourtCards: Abundant fleurs-de-lis; KS with harp and sceptre; QS in left profile, holds flower; JS with leaping dog; KH holds orb and sword; heraldic device of Saxony at feet; KD in left profile: LEIPZIG; JC with space for inscription., and Trumps: Single figure trumps; VI with man and camel; VII, unicorn; X, lion; XIII, man rides trunk of elephant; Fool holds violin and bow.
BEIN GER38: Imperfect: AH; K, QS, K-JD; Q, JC; 8, 3S; 5, 2H; 10, 3C, trumps II-VI, VII-XXI, Fool wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., Aces: AS was made by eradicating two of the pips on the 3S., CourtCards: JS with leaping dog; KH with orb, sword, crowned eagle; KC holds sceptre., and Trumps: Single figure trumps.
BEIN GER50: Imperfect: 6 of Spades wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., Tax stamp on Ace of Hearts, red, CourtCards: KS with sun face on cheest, fleurs-de-lis; JS with leaping dog; KH with orb, sword, eagle; KD: BERLIN / [fleurs-de-lis]; KC with fleurs-de-lis, Bavarian checkered pattern on shields; JC holds small device displaying Berlin bear: Conrad Josue Perrin. Kings retain their flat, two dimensional aspect while the other courts are presented in a naturalistic manner., Trumps: Trump I depicts jester holding rack of wursts; IV, bird and cat; VI, eagle; XX, soldier with cap: FR; XXI, figure with bear and pole., and The courts are related to the Paris style; the trumps are quite similar to contemporary Bavarian packs. See D. Hoffmann and E. Kroppenstedt 1967.
Manuscript on paper of an experimental alchemical compilation, devoted to laboratory procedures
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Partly written by F.F. Weichenhaan in a clear, sometimes hasty cursive sloping to the right, in Fraktur for the passages in German; the remainder written by Anna Susanna Lieber in a rather loose and pointed Fraktur sloping to the right., Watermarks: Watermarks of the smaller papers at edges and cut, not identified; the paper folded in quarto with a decidely brownish tint and a large, faint watermark in the folds, not identified., Light to very dark brown inks, no color, a few sketches of apparatus in the text. No catchwords, no signatures., Compiled about 1743 by F.F. Weichenhaan, partly from materials written about 1705 by Anna Susanna Lieber., and Binding: Old paper boards with parchment back, a title lettered in brown ink by a modern hand in gothic letters on the backstrip, plain edges.
