A diorama consisting of 6 color-lithographed leaves (two of cardboard, four of paper), mounted on tissue-paper accordion folds, that give a perspective view through a peep hole of the Berlin exhibition of 1896; final leaf has a translucent cut-out section
Publisher:
Verlag von Oscar Michaelis
Subject (Name):
Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung (1896)
Subject (Topic):
Exhibitions., Exhibitions--Germany--Berlin--Pictorial works., and Peep shows--Specimens
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Published / Created:
circa 1570
Call Number:
Mellon MS 41
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
Alternative Title:
Ripley scroll
Description:
One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
[Les moeurs et fachons de faire de turcz ... contrefaictez par Pierre Coeck d’Alost ... l’an de
Image Count:
1
Description:
Folded to 30 x 46 cm. Imperfect: t.p. and colophon leaf, and plates 10, 11, 13, 14 wanting; bled, with legend to plates cut away. and Panel 6 of 7 bound in accordion fold.
Subject (Topic):
Turks--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[Colophon: [Antwerp] : Maria Verhulst, vefue dudict Pierrre d’Alost ... a faict imprimer les dictes figures ... en l’an, 1553]]