Besser, Johann von, 1654-1729 Wolffgang, Johann Georg W., 1664-1744
Published / Created:
1712
Call Number:
2010 Folio 117
Image Count:
119
Abstract:
First published in 1702, this text celebrates the coronation of Friedrich III, elector Brandenburg, as Friedrich I, king of Prussia in 1701. That edition announced the series of engravings first published in this edition, a decade later. The 24 plates, some of them pasted together to form longer panoramas, were sketched by the court painter Johann Friedrich Wentzel and engraved by Johann Georg Wolffgang.
Alternative Title:
Koeniglich-Preuessischen Croenung hochfeyeerliche Solemnitaeten, Koenigs-Krone Friderichs des Dritten, Churfuersten zu Brandenburg, Preussische Kroenungs-Geschichte, and Verlauf der Ceremonien, mit welchen der Allerdurchlauchtigste, Grossmaechtigste Fuerst und Herr, Hr. Friderich der Dritte
Publisher:
Bey Ulrich Liebpert, Koeniglich Preussischen Hoff-Buchdrucker
Subject (Name):
Frederick I, King of Prussia, 1657-1713 --Coronation --Pictorial works and Sophie Charlotte, Queen, consort of Frederick I, King of Prussia, 1668-1705
Subject (Topic):
Coronations --Germany --Berlin --Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
Description:
Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.