Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365 Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Published / Created:
1528
Call Number:
Mellon MS 30
Image Count:
327
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Alchemical miscellany, compiled in 1528, perhaps by Niclaus of Sweden, who appears to have signed the last procedure in the volume on f. cclxxxxviiij verso
Description:
Binding: Original blind-stamped brown calf over beveled wooden boards, the sides paneled in vertical patterns of roll tools, two brass catches on upper cover, remains of brass attachments for clasps on the lower; the original backstrip with three raised bands laid down; plain edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, New York, and with a leather title label on the backstrip supplied by her., ff. 322v-346r blank and not scanned. Signatures 2R, 2S, 2T, 2V noted at 329r, 335r, 339r, and 341r, respectively., ff. 348, of which ff. 1-18 are unnumbered, ff. 19- 317 are correctly numbered i-cclxxxxviiij by the scribe, the remaining ff. 318-348 originally blank and unnumbered now partly with later additions, ff. 18 and 322-346 blank, the last leaf serving as the end pastedown., On paper., Script: Very neat and clear gothic cursives, captions by the same hand, written in two parts, the second beginning at f. 201r., Some red sentence-strokes and underlining; red captions and chapter headings with minimal elaboration, carefully laid out on the page, also pen line-fillers at end of each section, as needed for text spacing. A penned brown and red crown as folk symbol at left margin of f. 135r. Infrequent sketches of alchemical vessels in brown or red at side margins, some very slightly trimmed., and Watermarks: 1) a long-stemmed cross above a bull's head; 2) a six-lobed arc above and each lobe surmounted by a three-lobed cross; 3) a crown. All with vertical chain marks, trimmed, not identified.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum. German, and Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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
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
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