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 dr...
Description:
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew.
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 dr...
Description:
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
Manuscript on parchment containing emblematical drawings related to horology and astrology, and astrological tables, each section opening with an elaborate title page
Title, fol. 1a: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ ... maʻasé' yede ha-ḳaṭan Mosheh ben ha-manoaḥ ha-ḳatsin khar"ar Natan zatsal Oppenheim me ḳehilah kedoshah Mʻanets ... khatavti zot be-shenat Ṿa-yikhtov Mosheh et divre ha-zot ʻad tumam le-poh kehilatenu
Alternative Title:
Haggadah
Description:
On vellum. Artful calligraphic square characters for the text; calligraphic cursive characters for notation, Yiddish portions of the text, etc.Text within gilt line borders, initials illuminated in gilt.
Manuscript on paper of a miscellany. The manuscript seems to be a compilation organized, corrected and expanded by a single person specialized in pharmacology and medicine and interested in natural history, encyclopedical knowledge and history
Description:
In Latin with some Czech (?), German, and Hebrew.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, Natural history, and Pharmacology
