Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Klage. l German & German (Middle High German) and Nibelungenlied. German & German (Middle High German)
Description:
Errata on p. [1] at end., Text in parallel German and Middle High German columns., Unidentified bookplate on front paste-down, with name rubbed out., and With extensive corrections and manuscript notations in the hand of Karl Lachmann.
Publisher:
G. Reimer
Subject (Name):
Nibelungenlied --Adaptations and Nibelungenlied. German & German (Middle High German)
Manuscript on paper of Poggio Bracciolini, Dialogus in avariciam., The text has been glossed by a contemporary hand, in both Latin and German., and The text is the revised version made by Poggio following the suggestions of Niccolo Niccoli. The original version was printed in Basel (1538) and Strasbourg (1513), whereas the revised edition was never printed, although it exists in many manuscripts.
Description:
Binding: place uncertain, s. xx. Limp vellum case., Modern binder's blanks and contemporary blanks not scanned., On paper, and Written in elegant batarde by a single scribe.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Avarice--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
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
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.