A metallurgical experiment book of the type circulated among those interested in alchemy, mining, and metallurgy in the sixteenth century ...
Description:
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., Denis Duveen, acquired from Dr. Ernst Weil (bookseller), London, 1949; Mellon MS 104, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Red inks used for tabular data and infrequent sketches of alchemical apparatus in the text., and 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.
Subject (Name):
Oberlender, Andreas
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Marcasite, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Metallurgy--Early works to 1800
Bruecke (Artists’ group) Galerie Ernst Arnold (Dresden, Germany)
Published / Created:
[1910]
Call Number:
2008 1786
Image Count:
22
Abstract:
Die Bruecke, a group formed in Dresden in 1905, was one of two early associations of Expressionist artists in Germany, the other being Der blaue Reiter group in Munich. Their name—“the bridge”—expressed their desire to create an artistic bridge between the past and the present, and indeed the group revived old art forms, such as the woodcut, while aligning itself with international avant garde movements in the arts. This is the first group exhibition catalog issued by Die Bruecke, published by the Galerie Arnold in Dresden. The catalog contains woodcuts by Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, as well as a woodcut by Kirchner listing members of the group. An interesting feature of the woodcuts printed here is that each artist interpreted the work of a fellow member.
Besser, Johann von, 1654-1729 Wolffgang, Johann Georg W., 1664-1744
Published / Created:
1712
Call Number:
2010 Folio 117
Image Count:
119
Abstract:
First published in 1702, this text celebrates the coronation of Friedrich III, elector Brandenburg, as Friedrich I, king of Prussia in 1701. That edition announced the series of engravings first published in this edition, a decade later. The 24 plates, some of them pasted together to form longer panoramas, were sketched by the court painter Johann Friedrich Wentzel and engraved by Johann Georg Wolffgang.
Alternative Title:
Koeniglich-Preuessischen Croenung hochfeyeerliche Solemnitaeten, Koenigs-Krone Friderichs des Dritten, Churfuersten zu Brandenburg, Preussische Kroenungs-Geschichte, and Verlauf der Ceremonien, mit welchen der Allerdurchlauchtigste, Grossmaechtigste Fuerst und Herr, Hr. Friderich der Dritte
Publisher:
Bey Ulrich Liebpert, Koeniglich Preussischen Hoff-Buchdrucker
Subject (Name):
Frederick I, King of Prussia, 1657-1713 --Coronation --Pictorial works and Sophie Charlotte, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Prussia, 1668-1705
Subject (Topic):
Coronations --Germany --Berlin --Early works to 1800