Poem, autograph manuscript, written in an unidentified hand, with revisions written by the author.
Attributed to Thomas Tickell, son of John Tickell, a cousin of Thomas Tickell, 1686-1740.
Includes notes on a preliminary page and a dedication to Trelawny, partly in verse.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1798-1803
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 300
Image Count:
17
Description:
11 p. ; various sizes Letters dated: Jan. 30, 1798; Aug. 5, 1799; Nov. 4, 1799; Mar. 3, 1800; Apr. 2, 1800; Apr. 10, 1800 and Jun. 8, 1803. All in the handwriting of Goethe's secretary Ludwig Geist. The first six letters concern the publication of Goethe's Neue Schriften, Berlin, J.F. Unger, 1792- 1800, 7 vols. The last is a letter of thanks for Unger's gift of a copy of Chr. E. von Kleists Sämtliche Werke. All printed in Weimar Ausgabe. With: Two letters from Bernhard Suphan to Prof. K. Budde in Bonn, dated May 27, 1888 and July 11, 1888.
Manuscript on paper of a collection of writings by Paracelsus, speudonym of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast ab Hohenheim, 1493-1541, compiled by the pharmacist Georgius Schrotter in 1676.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth-century boards with rough calf back, worn, defective, and repaired, plain edges, probably an American binding., Mellon MS 159, acquired from Laurence Witten (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Calligraphically written in a variety of scripts, most of the text in a skillful Fraktur, by a single hand except for a few later additions., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a tall, thin pot with a single handle, plain and very crude, not identified., and Written in German with Latin headings and some cryptic writing. The ink, mostly very dark, has often bled into the paper and has sometimes had a corrosive effect.
Subject (Name):
Paracelsus,--1493-1541
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800 and Medicine--Early works