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- Creator:
- Oberlender, Andreas
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 44
- Image Count:
- 151
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Andreas Oberlender, Probter Buechleln, 1532, an unsigned later copy executed about 1600, with a few additions. A metallurgical experiment book of the type circulated among those interested in alchemy, mining, and metallurgy in the 16th century, this text treats at length several minerals with a metallic luster such as marcasite, especially crystallized iron pyrites, which were often used ornamentally, in costume jewelry
- Description:
- In German., Script: Written by a single copyist writing a practiced German secretary hand, partly in a modified Fraktur, partly in a more italic cursive, and occasionally (as in the title page) in a formal gothic script; a few additions at the end in a later hand., Red inks used for tabular data and infrequent sketches of alchemical apparatus in the text., and Binding: Original stiff parchment over paper boards, remnants of two thong ties on the upper cover, slits for similar ties, now missing, on the lower cover; front cover lettered in very faded gothic script, apparently by the scribe: "PROBIER BUCH | ANDREAS OBERLENDER | 1532 |". A title has also been supplied by a modern hand in old style on the backstrip. Plain edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Oberlender, Andreas.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, German literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Marcasite, and Metallurgy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ein kunstlich undt gerecht Probier Buechlein, 1532
