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.
Eigentliche vnd warhafftige Beschreibung / der wunderbaerlichen Schiffarth (der Hollaender
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicts the landscape of the Rotterdam harbor with four ships in the water. and Under each ship is different wording: de cendracht; Mauritius Admirael; Hendrick Fredrick vice-admirael; de hope (left to right).
Alternative Title:
Roterodamum and Roterodamvm
Description:
Indeciphered autograph with date. and Title page has two small holes; one after "wiederumb", making the "b" unrecognizable; the other on a blank section of the right side of the page above the autograph.
Subject (Geographic):
Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Collection Created:
Gedruckt zu Amsterdam / Durch Cornelium Nicolaum / Anno 1602
Final p. blank., Imprint from colophon., Not in VD 16., Signatures: [A]⁴., The printer Friedrich Gutknecht was active from 1548 to 1584. Cf. Benzing, J. Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschen Sprachgebiet., and Woodcut on t.p.
Einer antwort der Prediger daselbet auff ein Lesterschrifft, in deren sie das Münsterischen geistes vnd lehre, on einigen schein der warheit, beschuldiget werden. and Wem Reformation des eüsseren Ceremonischen Gotsdienste zustande.
Ein Kinder Joseph and Wiegenlied für gotselige Kindermeidlein und andere Christliche Personen
Description:
Final p. blank., Place of publication and printer from colophon; year of imprint from VD 16., Signatures: [A]⁴., Stamp: Fürstlich Stolberg Bibliothek Wernigerode. Vendor's description pasted in., and Without music.
Publisher:
Durch Friderich Gutknecht
Subject (Name):
Fürstlich Stolberg-Wernigerodesche Bibliothek Stamp, Gutknecht, Friedrich, d. 1590, and Mathesius, Johann, 1504-1565. Kinder Joseph
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