Lecture notes, made by Edward Elbridge Salisbury (?). Includes: "Persische Alterthumskunde", p. [205]-247; "Antiquitäten der West-Asiatischen Indogermanen (Assyrien)", p. [249]-254; "Antiquitäten der Semitischen Völker (Babylonier)", p. [255]-271; "Die Syrer. Die Araber. Die Phoenizier", p. 271-276; "Die Asiatischen und Africanischen Völker bis auf Darius Hystaspis [nach den Aufträgen von Dr. Johann Wilhelm Loebell]", 26. and Written in Bonn in Winter-Semester 1842-3.
Alternative Title:
Antiquitäten der Semitischen Völker (Babylonier)., Antiquitäten der West-Asiatischen Indogermanen (Assyrien)., Asiatischen und Africanischen Völker bis auf Darius Hystaspis., Die Syrer. Die Araber. Die Phoenizier., and Persische Alterthumskunde.
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
f. 45v, 46r : Geometric symbols containing luna crests., f. 50r : ""Philosophisch balneum,"" distillation apparatus and furnace., f. 50v : ""Der Faule Heintze,"" a multilevel furnace, and f. 51r : ""Der Philosophische Offen,"" a cylindrical furnace, with chimney.
Description:
3 oversize folding pages with drawings and diagrams inserted after f. 227., On paper, Twelve illustrations., and Written by a single scribe in gothic, Fraktur and roman scripts.