Appears in Blaeu's Atlas major., Bar scale given in milliaria Germanica., Ferro meridian., No. 61 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas., Relief shown pictorially., and Scale [ca. 1:8 500 000].
Publisher:
[Joan Blaeu]
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Central --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Africa, Eastern --Maps --Early works to 1800
Appears in Blaeu's Atlas major., Bar scale given in milliaria Germanica communia., Ferro meridian., Includes illustration of animals and ornamental cartouche., No. 60 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas., Relief shown pictorially., and Scale [ca. 1:12 000 000].
Publisher:
[Joan Blaeu]
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Central --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Africa, Eastern --Maps --Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right., Part I: Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) A short group of alchemical recipes. 2) Fasciculus chimicus, a title page and dedication dated 1620, possibly from a printed book, not clearly related to the following matter. 3) Sixty-five pen and watercolor emblematical drawings of alchemical processes occurring in flasks, with brief captions. 4) Artephius, Liber secretus. 5) Philipp Muller, De mercurio. 6) Christophorus Van(n), Notes on processes, one dated Rome, 1702.
Description:
Binding: Original binding of parchment over pasteboards, flaps at the fore-edges, six thongs sewn through hinges, flat back with early lettering in ink "Artefius [flourish]," speckled edges; the binding resembles that of MS 61 and is of almost identical height., Contains a series of drawings with symbolic depictions of alchemical processes taking place within flasks, originally extending to sixty-five, of which a few are now wanting. The series closes with some additional drawings of apparatus, which parallel those seen first in MS 50; see also MSS 52, 54, 71, 86, and 110., and Modern foliation in pencil begins with f. 2. However, f. 2 is the front free endpaper.
Subject (Name):
Artephius. and Müller, Philipp, b. 1585.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Formulas, recipes, etc., and Illumination of books and manuscripts--Early works to 1800.
Hand col. Sheet measures 51 x 60 cm. Stamp on verso: Horace Brown 1900S., Includes ill. and text., Relief shown pictorially., Shows California as an island and boundaries as dotted lines., and State 3, issued ca. 1694, according to Burden.
Imperfect: mutilated at corner, with some loss of text. Sheet measures 50.7 x 61.1 cm. Mounted on card stock. Cross Collection no. 121., R, Shows California as an island., and Shows North and South America, Greenland, Iceland, western edges of Europe and Africa.
"Cum privilegio ordinum Hollandiae et West Frisiae.", Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 53.5 x 63 cm., Shows California as an island., and Shows North and South America, Greenland, Iceland, western edges of Europe and Africa.
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (ca. 1700): 1) Treaty between Edward the Elder, King of England and Guthrun II, King of the Danes in East Anglia, 905-906. 2) Leges Edouardi regis, the Laws issued by King Edward the Elder (ca. 902-ca. 924) or Edward the Confessor (d. 1066). Part II (ca. 1650): 3) Annals of Iceland, 636-1394, with partial Latin translation in the margins. Here ascribed by another 17th-century hand to the Icelandic humanist Arngrimur Jonsson (1568-1648).
Description:
In Latin (Part I) and Icelandic (Part II)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-16): Written by one hand in Humanistic Cursive script. Part II (ff. 17-89): Gothica Cursiva for the Icelandic text, Humanistic Cursive script for the English text written in the margin., The acidity of the ink of the Icelandic text has damaged the paper., and Binding: Modern white parchment over cardboard.