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.
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.
Fifteen pages of largely diagrammatic drawings, approximately thirty-six in all, depending on how their relationships are interpreted (the text calls for thirty-two), are found from f. 10v to f. 17v, most of them accompanied by labels and the texts of prayers consisting of long series of invented names with exotic sounds written in a minute hand in brown ink, while the designs themselves are throughout in red. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names. and Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.
Description:
Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Incantations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
[Atlas factice of 96 maps by Blaeu, Visscher, Jansson, Hondius and others]
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
All four sides of map decorated with city views and costumed figures of different social classes. Includes coats of arms., Imperfect: torn along fold, with some loss of text; portions of decorative border cut or torn and repaired, with missing sections replicated in ms.; tears repaired., and No. 5 of 92 maps bound together.
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible--Paraphrases, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Carte des XVII. provinces ou de l’Allemagne inferievre, dressee suivant la projection stereographique, et appueyee par les mesures faites de Mess. Cassini, Snellius et Mouschenbrok, par Mr. Tob. Majer de la Societe geographique, et publiee par les Heritiers de Homann, l’An 1748
Publisher:
Cura et Studio Homannianorum Heredum
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800, Benelux countries --Maps --Early works to 1800, Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Netherlands --Maps --Early works to 1800
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Belgium Catholicum seu decem provinciae Germaniae inferioris and Carte des Pais Bas catholiques ou des X provinces de l’Allegmagne inferieure, etc. dessinee au juste selon les exactes observations astronomiques et operations geometriques des Messur. Cassini, Snellius, Muschenbrok, etc. dressee par Sr. Tobias Maier, mathematicien; aux depens des Heritiers de Homann
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800