Beschreibung dessen im 1661. Iahr, zu End dess Ienners, vnd Anfang Hornungs, erschinenen newen Cometens, Beschreibung dessen im 1661. Jahr, zu End dess Jenners, und Anfang Hornungs, erschinenen newen Cometens, and Cometographia
Publisher:
Gedruckt vnd verlegt durch den Authorem
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy --Early works to 1800, Comets --1661, and Comets --Early works to 1800
D. Joh. Friedrich Wucherers gruendliche Eroerterung der Frage ob die Cometen nichts gutes bedeuten?, Joh. Friedrich Wucherers gruendliche Eroerterung der Frage ob die Cometen nichts gutes bedeuten?, and Ob die Cometen nichts gutes bedeuten?
Publisher:
Verlegts Joh. Friederich Ritter
Subject (Name):
Buechner, Gottfried, 1701-1780, Eisenberg, Josef F., Freiesleben, Christoph Heinrich, d. ca. 1733, and Judgment Day
Subject (Topic):
Comets --Early works to 1800, Comets --Religious aspects --Early works to 1800, and Divination --Early works to 1800
Parchment and paper codex, ff. 87 of which f. 1-3 and 6-19 are of paper, the remainder of parchment, with modern pencil foliation throughout. and Personal commonplace book combining skillful drawings of apparatus, alchemical texts in German vernacular with noteworthy literary character--some of them in verse--and numerous practical procedures.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
Manuscript on paper of John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie, anonymously translated into German.
Description:
Binding: Original reddish brown polished leather over finely beveled wooden boards, troughs for two clasps and two spikes on front cover, each cover with five nipplelike wrought brass bosses, one at each corner and one in the center, the lower cover with two large brass roundels used to fasten the now-missing strap ties which emerged from the lower fore-edge; sides ruled to a simple geometric pattern, back with raised bands, the clasps now missing and the hinges cracked, but the binding sound., Headings and capitals (a few decorated) in red throughout., and Script: Written by a very fine and bold German gothic cursive hand.
Subject (Name):
Johannes,--de Rupescissa,--ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library