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.
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.
Replies to the disappointing news that Spies could again not pay off the money he owes K. ($34.50) Also offers the German translations of some Russian folktales to S. for using in Die Fackel, against no payment.
Description:
Accompanied by FBA catalog card
Subject (Name):
Fackel (Chicago, Ill.) and Spies, August Vincent Theodore, 1855-1887
Complete version of the earliest German translation of the Legenda aurea., Teil I: Sommerteil, and Teil II: Winterteil
Description:
2 volumes bound together with discreet foliation., On paper, and Teil II wanting ff. 4, 292.
Subject (Name):
Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad, 1722-1798, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints --Biography --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Calendar --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Legends --Early works to 1800, Church calendar --Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, German--Germany, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
ALS, written at Leiden, discussing Landberg's manuscript of al-Balādhurī's Futūḥ al-buldān (now Ms. Landberg 33), and other matters. and Inserted is a note (1 leaf, 17 x 10.5 cm.) by Count Landberg, describing the manuscript.
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ al-buldān., Letter to Count Carlo Landberg, and فتوح البلدان.
Description:
Gift of Charles C. Torrey in December 1951.
Subject (Name):
Balādhurī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, -892--Futūḥ al-buldān, Goeje, M. J. de (Michael Jan), 1836-1909, Landberg, Carlo, 1848-1924, بلاذري، أحمد بن يحيى، -892. فتوح البلدان., بلاذري، أحمد بن يحيى،---892., and بلاذري، أحمد بن يحيى،---892.--فتوح البلدان.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts, Futūḥ al-buldān (Balādhurī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá), and Middle East specialists--Correspondence
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Here, Malkow if sending Spies some articles in his own translation from the Russian. He also has another article on the Dekabrists and secret revolutionary clubs in Russia in the 1820's. M. would like to come to Chicago but feels that it is "never granted the Prolitarian to transform his desires into reality" 'He is, alas, not quite as lonely there as he thinks.'
About Russian lessions Malkow had been giving to a certain Emil Klaessig, which included the translation of the novel Wassilissa. Mainly dealing with the money Klaessig still owes Malkow.