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[Adelsrecht]: Militär-Adel. [Österreich, ca. 1845]. Deutsche Handschrift auf Papier. 23 SS. auf 14 Bll., halbbrüchig beschrieben. In originalem Papierumschlag mit kalligr. Titel. Lose Bögen. Kl.-Folio (225 x 286 mm). 
Interessante Kompilation von Erlassen und Dekreten, im wesentlichen betreffend den 1757 in den österreichischen Erblanden eingeführten "systemmäßigen Adel", ein Standesvorrecht, das bürgerlichen Offizieren unter bestimmten Bedingungen einen Rechtsanspruch auf Erhebung in den erblichen einfachen Adelsstand garantierte. - Das Dokument eröffnet mit einem "Vortrag des Directorii in Publicis et Cameralibus an Kais. Mar. Ther. v. 23. Okt. 1752": eine Vorlage zu der von Maria Theresia geforderten Beseitigung aller Unterschiede bei Nobilitationen und Standeserhöhungen zwischen den böhmischen und österreichischen Hofkanzleien, gegenseitiger Anerkennung ohne "der ehmals üblich gewesten neuerlichen Ansuch und Erlangung des selben respectu Standes" und Vereinheitlichung der dazu gebräuchlichen Siegel. Damit war eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die Einführung des systemmäßigen Adels geschaffen. Präsident des 1749 geschaffenen "Directorium in publicis et cameralibus", der Verwaltungsbehörde, die den erwähnten Hofkanzleien vorstand, war Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz. Am 12. Jänner 1757 wurde der systemmäßige Adel per Allerhöchster Entschließung der Kaiserin eingeführt: "Laut Publikazion vom Jän 1757 hat M. Theresia aus allermildester Neigung für das Militär zu entschließen geruht, daß jede, Offiziere so auch von der Fortuna sein Aufkommen hat, nachdem er 30 Jahre gedient und seines Wohlverhaltens wegen von seinem vorgesetzten Kommandanten ein gutes Zeugnis beizubringen vermag, auf Ansuchen das Ritterschaftsdiplom gratis ertheilt werden solle". - Bereits im April des Jahres erfolgten auf Anweisung des Hofkriegsrats erste Einschränkungen des Privilegs: "Im April 1757 wurde dieß dahin modifiziert, daß der erbländische Adel mit Nachsicht der Haupttaxe ertheilt werde, die Nebengebühren aber bezahlt werden sollen." Bis 1845 sind weitere Verschärfungen dokumentiert, aber auch Entscheidungen zur Form von Stammbäumen oder etwa die Feststellung, dass "den Chefs der 2 Linien der fürstl. Familien Schönburg [...] und der 5 Linien der fürstl. Familien Salm" die Titulatur "Durchlaucht" gebührt (Hofkanzleidekret vom 4. Februar 1845). - Der Umschlag mit Einrissen, zwei Ausschnitten am Hinterdeckel und fleckig. Die Textseiten leicht gebräunt und minimal fleckig.
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[Alchemical manuscript]: Alchemical manuscript on vellum containing a series of complex symbols, diagrams and cipher text. [Northern Italy, not before 1560s]. 4to (159 x 218 mm). Latin and Italian manuscript on vellum. 16 leaves, the first part containing notarial records of land ownership paginated 1-15; the second half with 14 pages of symbols, diagrams and cipher text, in red ink. Stored in custom-made morocco-backed clamshell case. 
An unusual and sophisticated alchemical manuscript showing a range of influences from Paracelsus to the Kabbalah. - Beginning in the middle of the single gathering, the manuscript contains a series of complex symbols and diagrams with cipher text, encoding alchemical processes. The illustrations start off with a symbol incorporating four watchtowers, a Star of David, and alchemical glyphs; later images include various furnaces, stills, and other apparatus, a seven stage ascent beginning with a flask and culminating in a throne (probably representing chemical processes), a fountain (similar to the opening image of the Rosarium Philosophorum), an alchemical rebis, a tree growing on a tomb with seven mountains in the background, a fruit bearing tree growing from a male figure impaled on a sword, a bird (apparently an owl) with an alembic on its head, and a distillatory furnace, many of the images partly composed of lines of cipher characters and incorporating various glyphs, also with diagrams of geometrical speculation, tables with Hebrew letters (perhaps showing permutations of solar and lunar qualities), and related material (ff. 9-15v). - Paracelsian influence is in evidence in the manuscript's list of the three essential ingredients of the Philosophers' Stone (Mercury, Sulphur, Salt), while the geometric representations of these tria prima resemble those found in the works of the Belgian alchemist Gerard Dorn (1530-84). Jewish elements include the use of Hebrew characters and the appearance of a Menorah in the rebis figure. The accompanying text is entirely in a cipher which resembles that of the Aiq Bekr or Kabbalah of the Nine Chambers. This manuscript reveals an alchemist whose work combines in a unique way many features found in contemporary practitioners such as, in England, John Dee. - Prefixed to the alchemical section is a series of notarial records including land transactions and a will, dating from 1537 to 1561 (providing the terminus post quem for the succeeding part) and localisable to northern Italy, specifically the Veneto (there is mention of a church of "Sancti Floriani de Rippa", or Riva, and of Venice itself). - Some staining, smudging to a few images and tears to outermost leaves. - Provenance: Sotheby's, 26 November 2008, lot 7.
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[Alchemical manuscript]: An alchemist's handbook, in German. Illustrated manuscript on paper. [Germany, ca. 1480/90]. Small 4to (140 x 195 mm). 91 leaves, 149 written pages in two hands, the main body of the text complete, up to 29 lines per page, ruled space 85 x 155 mm. Incipit: "In nomine domini amen. Noch dem also gesprochen ist daß alle kunst kunftigk ist von got und ist by im on ende...". Rubrics touched in red, calligraphic initials in red and some with flourishing, 25 watercolour illustrations of scientific apparatus, 10 mathematical and architectural diagrams in pen. 15th century German calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind with vertical rows of hunting scenes within a triple-filet frame, remains of two fore-edge clasps. Stored in custom-made half morocco clamshell case. 
A Renaissance alchemist's handbook, quoting Al-Razi by name and deeply rooted in the Islamic tradition of alchemical art. An intriguing manuscript which bears witness to early practical chemistry in 15th century Germany and to the immense influence of Arabic alchemy, illustrated with talented watercolour diagrams of the associated apparatus. - Indeed, the word 'alchemy' itself is derived from the Arabic word 'al-kimia', and it was Al-Razi who claimed that "the study of philosophy could not be considered complete, and a learned man could not be called a philosopher, until he has succeeded in producing the alchemical transmutation". Alchemy and chemistry often overlapped in the early Islamic world, but "for many years Western scholars ignored Al-Razi's praise for alchemy, seeing alchemy instead as a pseudoscience, false in its purposes and fundamentally wrong in its methods, closer to magic and superstition than to the 'enlightened' sciences. Only in recent years have pioneering studies conducted by historians of science, philologists, and historians of the book demonstrated the importance of alchemical practices and discoveries in creating the foundations of modern chemistry" (Ferrario). The quest to transmute base metals into gold and to obtain the Philosophers' Stone was a practical as well as theoretical pursuit, as attested by the existence of this manuscript. The main body of the text opens on fol. 5 with an introduction to the art of alchemy, whose practice requires reference to the ancient authorities. Recipes for the various pigments, solutions, acids and alkalis are listed in groups, before descriptions are given of the planets relevant to the alchemist's art, starting with Saturn, and their effect on the elements, again with reference to the ancient authorities including Al-Razi, Origen, Aristotle, Albertus Magnus, and Hermes Trismegistus. There follow notes on the ease of obtaining various elements, before lists of alchemical compounds - including 'sal petri' and 'aqua lunaris' - are grouped according to their nature. Practical instructions, organised by chapter, begin on fol. 17v with the manufacture of vermillion and 'spangrün'; the first of the illustrations depicts two vessels for the burning of cinnabar. Further recipes involve the burning of various substances - illustrated with drawings of furnaces, cucurbits and other vessels, and distillation apparatus - before moving on to the manufacture of acids, bases and oils, mentioning the use of quicksilver, then, finally, turning to the manufacture of gold. The end of the text on fol. 69 is marked with the words 'Alchimia & Scientia' in red ink with calligraphic flourishes, above a floral device. - The first pigment recipe books in German would not be published until the 1530s (cf. Schießl, Die deutschsprachige Literatur zu Werkstoffen und Techniken der Malerei, 1989). While the manual at hand never appeared in print, a much later manuscript of the same text, apparently copied by no less an authority than the botanist Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554), survives in Heidelberg's University Library under the title of "Ordenlicher proces der waren alten heimlichen kunst der alchymey in drey bucher gestelt" ("Alchemistisches Kunstbuch", Cod. Pal. germ. 294, dated to the middle or third quarter of the 16th century). Unlike the vividly coloured and deftly shaded illustrations in the present volume from the 15th century, the unsophisticated pen drawings in the later Palatina manuscript were clearly executed by the scribe himself rather than by a trained artist. Also, our manual contains additional illustrations at the end, showing some of the most necessary equipment on a double-page spread, as well as five additional pages of recipes for "lutum sapientiae", "postulatz golt" etc., some parts written in a secret cipher, all of which are lacking from Bock's copy. - A unique survival: the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts lists no more than eight 15th-century German alchemy tracts in institutional possession worldwide. - The binding is sound and intact, but shows significant losses to the upper cover; spine entirely lost. Two leaves loose at the end of the manuscript, outer margins waterstained and tattered, surface soiling most notable to f. 1. Occasionally loose and split at gatherings; presence of bookworm damage on some pages; very occasional wax stains. - Collation: written by another scribe and bound before the alchemist's handbook (ff. 5-69) are astrological calculations, including those charting the trajectories of the Sun and the Moon (ff. 1-4, obviously incomplete). At the end, 9 leaves with geometrical calculations, illustrated with pen diagrams (ff. 70v-78, apparently incomplete, 2 leaves loose). The last 12 leaves are blanks (ff. 79-91). - 1) The script, watermark and binding indicate that the manuscript was made in Germany in the final two decades of the 15th century. The watermark visible on certain pages - a heart beneath a crown, above 'Ib' - is closest to a motif widely used in Germany around 1480-1500 (cf. Piccard 32464-32481), and the binding is contemporary. The pastedowns, taken from a Litany of Saints, are also roughly contemporary. 2) This compendium of cryptic knowledge appears to have lain undisturbed for many years after its compilation: the contemporary stamped leather binding is preserved and no booklabels or ownership inscriptions mark the manuscript changing hands. 3) Zisska & Schauer, 4 May 2010, lot 6. 4) Braunschweig Collection, Paris. - Schoenberg Database SDBM_177979. G. Ferrario, Al-Kimiya: Notes on Arabic Alchemy. In: Chemical Heritage, 25 (2007), 32ff.
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[Alchemie- und Malfarbenbuch]: Praeparationes variae aluminii calcinatio. Wohl Deutschland, um 1650. Deutsche und lateinische Handschrift auf Papier. 58 Bll. mit zus. 97 beschr. SS. mit einigen Illustrationen. Dunkelbraune Tinte, meist mit Überschriften in rot. Moderner Halbpergamentband über roten Marmordeckeln mit goldgepr. Rückenschildchen. 8vo (111 x 175 mm). 
Schöne Sammlung von alchemistischen Rezepten und Anleitungen zum Vergolden sowie zur Herstellung verschiedener Malfarben und Pigmente. Aus dem Inhalt: "Salis amoniaci", "Aqua de albumine ovorum", eine "Nota de calcinatione", "Cinobrium fixum", "Borras zu machen", "Aqua auripigmenti", "Arsenicum metallisch zu machen", "Aqua ardens", "De antimonio & sublimatio antimonii" (mit zwei kleinen Zeichnungen), "Praeparatio antimonii", "Vitrum antimonii", "De Jove", "De Saturno", "Praeparatio plumbi", "Crocus Martis", "Martem zu dealbiren", "De venere & cupro purgatio", "Aqua purgans", "Ein Album vom Goldsmid", "Tinctura pulcra ad album", "Alia Tinctura und lapis philosophorum", "Geel zu ferben", "Blaw Farbe vom Vetter Andreas", "Sittig Grien", "Rotte Farbe", "Braun rott", "Tunckel Braun", "Weiss Farbe", "Viol braun", "Braun duester", "Schön rosen-rott und bestendig", "Brand geel, oder Goldgel", "Von Farben", "Gold auffzulegen", "Argentum musicum", "Eine Goldfarbe", "Safftgrün", "Etzen mit Wasser", "Gold aus der feder zu schreiben", "Gülden Pulver damit man schreiben und mahlen kann", "Cinober zu machen", "Grienspan zu machen", "Rubrika oder Minium zu machen aus Bleiweis", "Minium oder Rubrica aus Blei", "Lasur zu machen", "Roselein farb", "Grinen Zwirn", "Messing versilbern" (mit kleiner Zeichnung), "Salpeter zu probiren" etc. - Dazwischen, in einer anderen Hand eingeschoben, eine Aufstellung der Kosten für die Einrichtung eines alchemistischen Labors mit Sublimiergläsern, Kolben und Phiolen sowie der daraus zu erwartende "Gewin ungefehr" (nämlich nicht weniger als 12.208 Gulden). - Die rote Farbe der Überschriften ist teils stärker verblasst. Blätter in gering unterschiedlichen Größen und unbeschnitten. Durchgehend leicht gebräunt; im letzten Drittel Feuchtigkeitsspuren im unteren Teil.
Bestellnummer: 59250 - Aus Liste: Manuskripte - Autographen 
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[Alchemie]: Ein Tractat von dem Lapide Philosophorum, darinnen kürtzlich begriffen wirdt, was derselbe sey, undt seine prima materia? wie sie genennet, colligirt, eingesetzt, biß zur Vollkommenheit praeparirt, fermentirt u. augmentirt werden. Wohl Deutschland, um 1650. Deutsche Handschrift von verschiedenen Händen auf Papier. Titel und 82 beschr. Bll. (sowie 96 w. Bll.). Zeitgenössischer Pergamentband. 12mo (87 x 115 mm). 
Hübsche Taschenhandschrift von mehreren Händen zu den klassischen Problemen der Alchemie: über Natur und Bestandteile des Steins der Weisen, zur Transmutation der Metalle, zur "vera et naturalis Via Tinctura universalis" etc., teils unter Bezugnahme auf Paracelsische Schriften. Enthält ausführliche Erläuterungen und Rezepte für Öle, Tinkturen und dergleichen, teils mit chemischen Zeichen. - Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt; untere Ecke des Titels ergänzt, sonst tadellos erhalten. Am vorderen Vorsatz hs. Provenienzvermerk des 19. Jahrhunderts, der den Band als Gabe des baltischen Mediziners und Naturgeschichtsprofessors Johann Gottlieb von Groschke (1760-1828) ausweist: "geschenkt erhalten von Prof. Groschke 1819"; darunter spätere Vermerke zu Groschke in Bleistift.
Bestellnummer: 59249 - Aus Liste: Manuskripte - Autographen 
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Alchemy - [Santinelli, Francesco Maria]: La vera dichiaratione o spiegatione filosofiche dell'arte aurifica: sopra il Lapis Filosofico, Ellisire et Oro Potabile, et altro [...]. [Italy, ca. 1666-1699]. 4to (185 x 265 mm). Italian manuscript on paper. (20), 259, (5). 4 hand-drawn illustrations. Contemporary leather binding with "De arte aurifica" written on the spine. 
An otherwise unknown treatise covering alchemy from its philosophical basis through to its practical applications, including the construction of the oven, the nature of the Philosopher's Stone, and several recipes for gold and other metals. It also contains poems on alchemical and hermetic subjects, most of them by the Italian poet and alchemist Francesco Maria Santinelli (1626-97), who cannot, however, be established as the author of the main text. - After a brief introduction to alchemical thought, the text provides detailed instructions, with beautiful hand-drawn diagrams, for the construction of the oven (Athanor). There follows a discussion of the Philosopher's Stone before the text moves on to its main subject, the production and refinement of various metals. Although the short title on the spine ("De arte aurifica") and at the top of the pages throughout ("Spiegatione Filosofiche Del Arte Aurifica") place the emphasis on gold, the numerous recipes allow the reader to create a wide variety of substances, giving the volume a practical function for an active alchemist. The ten recipes for gold are for the drinkable (colloidal) variety, used in the period for medical purposes. - After the main text there are a selection of alchemical and hermetic texts in at least three different hands, including several poems by Francesco Maria Santinelli (under his anagrammatic pseudonym Fra Marc'Antonio Crassellame Chinese), as well as a sonnet attributed (though not in this manuscript) to Frate Elia da Cortona, an associate of St. Francis ("Solvete i corpi in acqua..."), and one which is unidentified ("L'Acqua, che el bel smeraldo in se nasconde..."). The text of Santinelli's poems is drawn from his "Lux Obnubilata", and the layout mimics that of the printed edition nearly exactly, implying this volume was copied at some point after its publication in 1666. Several pages are left blank to allow the reader to add their own recipes and reflections. - The work stems from a time when chemistry was beginning to split off from alchemy. The title is clearly modelled on that of Evangelista Quattrami's "La vera dichiaratione di tutte le metafore, similitudini, ed enimmi degl?antichi filosofi alchimisti" of 1587. Quattrami, the long-standing herborist to the Este Dukes of Ferrara, argued for a distinction between the noble tradition of "alchemical philosophy" and "false alchemists", who were mere charlatans who swindled rich and poor alike by claiming they could convert base metals to gold. True alchemy, for Quattrami, was a philosophical metaphor: it was not the mere "dead" metals of the earth but "living" metals of the spirit that it was concerned with transmuting. This places Quattrami's work in the tradition of Hermetic Philosophy, a tradition originating ultimately in Hellenistic Egypt which was transmitted through Islamic to Christian authors and gained popularity in the Renaissance among alchemists. - As the true understanding of spiritual nature in alchemy is linked with the understanding of physical nature, many alchemists of this period thus made important discoveries that paved the way for the scientific field of what we could call chemistry to define itself. It includes recipes from several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century (al)chemists, such as Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), Johann Hartmann Beyer (1563-1625) and Johan Rudolf Glauber (1604-70), as well as earlier ones such as Paracelsus (1439-1541). This work represents a continuation of these varied but intertwined traditions. - An exemplary collection of the philosophical, mystic, and scientific elements of the mercurial discipline of alchemy at a time of its own transmutation. - Binding somewhat warped and stained but overall in good condition, title clearly visible on spine. Inside of front binding repaired. Light edgewear, title-page repaired, some pages with mostly marginal tears and worm damage but not enough to impact legibility. A spilt liquid has stained much of the manuscript, staining some pages extensively but again the legibility is only rarely impaired. In good condition for a book of its age that has seen active use. - A reference in the introduction to the work of the alchemist Olivero Olivieri at the court of Duke Ranuccio I Farnese of Parma (1592-1622) suggests a northern Italian provenance in particular. The inside of the the front binding repaired with a pastedown made from a late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century Italian calendar of saint's days. - Alfredo Perifano, "Alchimie et philosophie de la nature chez Evangelista Quattrami", in Alchimie et philosophie à la Renaissance, ed. by Jean-Claude Margolin and Sylvain Matton (Paris, 1993), pp. 253-264. Anna Maria Partini, Francesco Maria Santinelli: Sonetti Alchimici e altri scriti inediti (Rome, 1985). Francesco Maria Santinelli, Lux obnubilata suaptè natura refulgens: vera de lapide philosophico theorica, metro italico descripta (Venice, 1666). Evangelista Quattrami de Gubbio, La vera dichiaratione di tutte le metafore, similitudini, ed enimmi degl?antichi filosofi alchimisti (Rome, 1587).
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[Alchemy]: "Opuscula Alchymica". Alchemical manuscript. Germany, 18th century. Folio (200 x 318 mm). German manuscript, ink on paper. 81 ff., written on rectos and versos. Modern mottled quarter calf over marbled boards, spine stamped in blind and titled in gilt. 
A German alchemical manuscript comprising five treatises in five different hands. The first part is an anonymous essay on the medical aspects of human excrement ("Auß den Microcosmischen excrementis oder Stercore humano können Medicamenta gemacht werden [...]"); the second, also anonymous, is a brief treatise on the Philosopher's Stone ("Meine meinung den Lapidem Philosophorum zu erlangen ist diese [...]"). Part three is a commentary on the 1660 Amsterdam edition of Joachim Polemann's "Novum Lumen Medicum". Polemann was an adherent to the ideas of Johann Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644) and Ramon Lull. The "Novum Lumen Medicum" is Polemann's elucidation of Helmont's teachings on the secret of philosophers' sulphur, which involved bloodstone, spirit of wine, and "alzali" (alkali?) to produce a sulphuric tincture. First published in 1659, the book enjoyed considerable success in many later editions and translations. - The fourth section is a commentary on Johann Gottfried Jugel's "Prima Materia Metallorum", first published 1754. It is one of several works on metals and chemistry by Jugel, and discusses the properties of various substances. The final section presents material from a work attributed to Herward von Forchenbrunn and to Joseph Kirchweger (d. 1746) titled "Aurea Catena Homeri", which concerns sulphurs and metals and their various medicinal applications. The attempt to distinguish and separate true applicable science and medicine from the traditional occult arts is strongly indicated in the contents of this manuscript. - Browned throughout due to paper stock; some foxing, but well legible. A late 19th century label mounted on the first leaf lists some of the contents. Attractively bound. - Provenance: Emanuel Mai, Catalog des Bücher-Lagers (Berlin 1854), no. 264; later sold by James and Mary Laurie, Booksellers, of St. Paul, Minnesota. Last in the library of the noted Russian-American photographer and biologist Roman Vishniac (1897-1990). - Cf. Thorndike VII, 231.
Bestellnummer: 58954 - Aus Liste: Manuskripte - Autographen 
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Alexander VII, Pope (i. e. Fabio Chigi, 1599-1667): Papal bull. Rome, "Non[is] Martii", i. e. 7 March 1656. Oblong 4to (290 x 175 mm). Latin manuscript on vellum. 1 p. With Alexander's lead bulla attached on a hemp cord. 
Dispensation of consanguinity to the 4th degree for the marriage of a François Louvet and Françoise La Fière addressed to the bishop of Séez (Orne). Well preserved document with two initials on the plica and six initals of the first line in floral baroque calligraphy issued in the second year of Alexander's pontificate (1655-67) that is best remembered for his ambitious urban and architectural projects in Rome carried out by Gianlorenzo Bernini and other leading artists. - Countersigned by members of the Apostolic Chancery and summarized in Latin (verso). Traces of folds with minimal tears; a line of small tears due to worming or rubbing. A round section cut out (not affecting the text).
Bestellnummer: 60374 - Aus Liste: Manuskripte - Autographen 
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Alms, James, captain of the H.M.S. Monmouth (1728-1791): Monmouth's Log Book. Bay of Madras and other places, 1783-1784. 4to (190 x 238 mm). English manuscript on watermarked paper. 127 ff., of which 102 ff. constitute the log book, 12 ff. constitute a short work of fiction in a second hand, and the remainder have been left blank. Original stiff vellum inked with the title "Monmouth's Log Book Commen[cing?] June 20th 1783" on the front cover. 
The remarkable original logbook of Captain James Alms, containing a first-hand account of the final battle of the American Wars of Independence. Fought between British and French forces (the latter the new American allies) half a world away from the rebelling American colonies, the final shots fired in the American Revolution were sent across the water at the Bay of Madras, sparking the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and are recorded herein. - The Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War had in fact been signed over two weeks previously, but the news had yet to reach India. Thus, the Battle of Cuddalore took place on the 20th of September. This sea battle was fought in the naval strategy called the "line of battle", each fleet forming a miles-long single-file line which faced off at close range and fired broadside until the enemy line retreated or was destroyed. As witnessed by Alms: - "The French fleet to windward, bearing down; 10 p[as]t 12 the Signal to form the line E[as]t & West; [...] ? past 4 the Enemy began their attack on our rear: when the Admiral made the Signal to engage, began the Engagement with the Enemys [sic] fourth Ship in the line & continued firing till ? past 7, when being dark both fleets ceased". - Though no one on the Bay of Madras knew it, this was the end of the American Revolution. Alms records "19 people Wounded in action" and three or more deaths, recorded hour by hour as men succumbed to their wounds, while the rest worked hard on repairs: "People variously employ'd Knotting & Splicing, repairing the Sails, Shot Holes & the fore yard which had been shot through". After an attempt to chase down the French, the British retreated to the "Madras Roads" to rest, attempt to salvage the most damaged ships, and take on supplies. It was likely there that the news of the Treaty arrived, and Alms and his crew embarked on a return to England. - Alms was at the end of a long and illustrious career in the Royal Navy: he had been instrumental in the capture of Havana, fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Carnatic and Seven Years' Wars, and had lost his son in action in a naval battle a year before. While the Battle of Cuddalore would go on to spark the Second Anglo-Mysore War, it was the final chapter of both the American Revolution and the H.M.S. Monmouth and her captain; the final entry in the log book records the date of decommissioning of the Monmouth. - Covers somewhat worn; small stain to top edge of text block, remarkably bright and clean, with only a few small smudges expected from a working log. - Captain James Alms (1728-1791); then by descent to his great-grandson Frederick H. Alms (ownership inscription dated 9 Dec. 1896); by descent to J. F. Duckworth, RN (manuscript note, loosely inserted, dated 25 April 1954).
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[Anatomy of the Ottoman Empire]: L'Anatomie de l'Empire des Ottomans. Declarant l'Origine, Conquestes, Loix, Religion, rentes et fortes des Turcs [...]. No place, 1661. 4to (167 x 235 mm). French manuscript on paper. (1 blank, 4), 75 ff. Cursive script in light brown ink, per extensum, left and right margins ruled in lead pencil. Contemporary unsophisticated cardboard with handwritten calligraphic title, date and a skilfully executed drawing of a grashooper to upper cover. 
Unpublished, highly interesting 17th century French manuscript about the history, religion, and topography of the Ottoman Empire, written to convey in brief the essentials of the Muslim world. Chapters include "Origine des Turcs et leurs conquestes", "De la Secte de Mahomet et des Loix et Polices des Turcs" (an extensive discussion of Islam and the Prophet), "Estat present de l'Empire des Ottomans" (on the Ottoman state), "Princes confinans avec l'Ottoman", "Princes pretendans sur cest Empire", "La maniere de faire une ligue contre les Ottomans", and "Moyen d'attaquer, abbatre et aneantir l'Empire des Turcs". At the end, the manuscript also mentions Arabia "on the Red Sea" and the port of Jeddah, "where the pilgrims of Mahomet disembark for Mecca". Further, the author discusses navigation of the Red Sea (dangerous at night) and the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, including the port of Aden, Ras Fartak, Norbat (Ash Shuwaymiyyah) opposite the Khuriya Muriya Islands, Muscat, the Kingdom of Ormuz and other places in the Gulf under Portuguese rule. - Occasional slight brownstaining, lower half of title-page defective and rebacked (apparently without loss), otherwise a well-preserved, well-legible manuscript, untrimmed in its original 17th century binding.
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[Anti-Jesuit sonnet]: "Per la soppressione della Compagnia di Gesù". Manuscript copy of a sonnet. No place, 16. VIII. 1773. 8vo. Italian manuscript on paper. ? p. 
Unpublished sonnet attributed to a Count Marescalchi of Ferrara. The poem describes the Society of Jesus as a crumbling "bulwark of two centuries", likening it to the Tower of Babel and lamenting their vanity. It concludes with the assertion that the Jesuits are guilty of their own ruin: "Te stessa incolpa della tua ruina". - The sonnet is dated to 16 August 1773, less than a month after the suppression of the Jesuits by Pope Clement XIV through the papal brief "Dominus ac Redemptor Noster". This controversial political act led to a surge in propaganda for and against the Jesuits and the Pope. - The word "Emine[n]za" written on the verso, potentially indicating a dedication. Minor brownstaining.
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[Antiphonar]: Einzelblatt aus einem Antiphonar. [Wohl Spanien, 18. Jahrhundert]. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament (645 x 410 mm). 6 Zeilen Text und römische Quadratnoten in schwarzer Rahmung. Mit einer Initiale. 
Stellenweise etwas fleckig, alte Montagespuren verso.
Bestellnummer: 57512 - Aus Liste: Manuskripte - Autographen 
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Aristotle / Johannes de Fonte: Praepositiones universales Aristotelis [Auctoritates Aristotelis, Parvi Flores]. [Italy], 1499. 8vo (106 x 159 mm). Latin manuscript on paper. 100 ff. (counted as 99 in error). Period wooden half-leather binding with fragmentary clasp. 
A beautifully bound, meticulously penned compendium of the works of Aristotle in Latin, here in a rare variant of their most popular form in the later Middle Ages. - The so-called Parvi Flores were the dominant collection of Aristotelian florilegia, which circulated under various titles, mainly Auctoritates Aristotelis. In Italy, the collection was somewhat different and bore the title Praepositiones Aristotelis, which is shared by this volume, written in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. A selection of passages from the Aristotelian corpus are offered, along with brief commentary, as well as some selections from other authors such as Seneca, Boethius, and Averroes. - This manuscript is distinguished by the presence of a different prologue ("Alexander magnus rex fertur magistrum habuisse acutissimum philosophum [...]"), which the text's modern editor, Jacqueline Hamesse, lists as shared by only two other manuscripts (Hamesse 1974, p. 46, n. 6) and two northern Italian incunabula of 1476 and 1488. To these we can add a manuscript of similar date in the Abbey of Melk (Cod. 1834). Against the backdrop of a textual tradition of nearly 200 manuscripts and around 40 incunabula, a version of the text with this prologue is thus extremely rare, particularly in manuscript form. - A notable feature of this volume is the preservation of the handsome contemporary (since repaired) binding, made of wooden boards half-bound with leather and a fragmentarily preserved clasp. The front interior bears the date 1539 underneath the name "Julius (Giulio) Zoboli", which is also found written on the first folium and two other places in the volume, once next to the date 1499. The back bears an offset of another manuscript written in a hand of the fifteenth century, with few words fully legible but seemingly of a poem in Latin, which must have once been used as a paste-down. At the back there is a table of contents and four pages of handwritten notes by Zoboli. - The Parvi Flores were originally compiled sometime between 1267 and 1325 by Johannes de Fonte, a Franciscan scholar and teacher active at Montpellier. They were particularly designed for use in faculties of arts and schools of the preaching orders, and achieved wide circulation throughout the west, but particularly in German-speaking Europe. Previously they had been attributed to the Italian scholar Marsilius of Padua (ca. 1270-1342) or the English scholastic philosopher Walter Burley (ca. 1275-1345), but following the work of Jacqueline Hamesse, the attribution to Johannes de Fonte is now well established. - The Latin West barely knew the works of Aristotle before the sixth century AD, and even after this point, only the Categories and On Interpretation were known, in Boethius' translation. In the twelfth century, the increasing opening of intellectual channels to the Islamic world allowed for a rapid transmission of vast amounts of the Aristotelian corpus to the West, translated from Arabic and Greek. This resulted in a revolution in western intellectual culture, described by some as the "twelfth-century Renaissance", and for the rest of the Middle Ages, no thinker would enjoy such great authority: any reference merely to "the Philosopher" could be none other than Aristotle. - Aristotelian philosophy formed the basis of the works of the greatest thinkers of the High Middle Ages, such as William of Ockham and Thomas Aquinas, and through the latter's influence in particular, it came to provide the intellectual framework for modern Catholic thought. - A compendium of the work of Aristotle, such as this one, was an extremely handy source of authoritative statements, valuable for philosophers, theologians, and students of natural science alike. An elegant, concise volume that represents the centrepiece of western medieval philosophy. - Original binding somewhat wormed, mainly at the back, spine fitted with newer leather. Clasp fragmentarily preserved. Some browning, staining and smudging but rarely enough to impair legibility of the elegant, clear script. Margins clean aside from a few annotations in the original hand. A few marginal tears not affecting the text; other leaves in excellent condition considering their age, crisp and clean, edges neat, few signs of use. - Italy. Inside of front binding reads: Julii Zoboli hic est. 1539. The name also appears on f. 1r, 29v (as Giulio Zoboli) and f. 95v, there seemingly accompanied by the date 1499. The final page has a note in a seventeenth-century hand with the name Lanfranco di Baldi da Este. - Jacqueline Hamesse, Les auctoritates Aristotelis: un florilège médiéval, étude historique et édition critique (Louvain and Paris, 1974); eadem, "Les manuscrits des «Parvi flores». Une nouvelle liste de témoins", Scriptorium 48:2 (1994), 299-332; eadem, "Des Parvi flores aux Auctoritates Aristotelis", in her edited volume, Les "Auctoritates Aristotelis", leur utilisation et leur influence chez les auteurs médiévaux (Turnhout, 2017).
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[Arithmetic textbook.] Clauzel, Pierre: Livre d'arithmetiq[ue]. Mirepoix, 1764. 8vo. French manuscript on paper. 412 (but: 406) numbered pp., with pp. 227-228 skipped, 145-146 and 387-388 missing. With two folding tables. Contemporary brown sheepskin with label to spine. 
Interesting handwritten textbook of arithmetics with elaborate calligraphy by an otherwise unknown merchant named Pierre Clauzel from Lavelanet. The manuscript was probably executed in two phases, as pages 1-121 are rife with calligraphed titles, ornaments, borders, and marks in coloured ink, whereas the rest of the manuscript displays a plainer style in the same hand. - Clauzel signed both inner covers: the date added to the front, 3 December 1765, probably indicates the completion of the entire manuscript, despite the calligraphed title bearing the year 1764. According to the title, the textbook was compiled "under the direction of the Brothers of the Christian Schools of the town of Mirepoix". It is an introduction to arithmetics that does not go beyond basic operations, instead focusing on usefulness for merchants. Thus, the manuscript includes a wide variety of arithmetic operations for accounting, trade, financial transactions, etc., all demonstrated by aid of concrete examples. These varied and realistic practical specimens turn the manuscript into a valuable document for a history from below. For the "testament rule" Clauzet uses the example of a "merchant from Toulouse" who was attacked and "dangerously wounded" on the way to the "fair of Beaucaire". He wants to bequeath a certain sum to his pregnant wife and unborn child, with different portions of the sum being allotted either to a son or a daughter. The hypothetical wife ultimately gives birth two daughters and a son. Clauzet proposes a division rule to solve this unexpected problem. Another rule is a distribution key for a prize obtained by more than one ship, based on the number of sailors and cannons on board each ship. The manuscript closes with several examples for bills of exchange and copies of seven requests for payment by Pierre Clauzel. The two folding plates compare various measures of weight and length from France and other parts of Europe. - The congregation of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as De La Salle Brothers, had been established by Jean-Baptiste de la Salle in Paris in 1694 with the goal of providing education to poor children. The chapter and school in Mirepoix had only been recently established when the manuscript was written. - Binding chafed and bumped. Unprofessional restorations to lower spine and front cover. With occasional ink damage. Two leaves show several tears but no text loss. Folding tables have tears and creases.
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[Arma Christi]: Exhortatio S. Augustini Psal. 36. Conc. 2. post init. Ad Patientia[m] Exemplo Passionis Christi. [Austria or Bohemia, ca. 1650-1720]. Miniature Latin manuscript on vellum (82 x 55 mm). (5), 2-28 (but: 29), 1-40 ff., (18 ff. blank except for red ruling). With 26 full-page illuminations. Text in brown ink in a neat rotunda; title, important words, and initial letters highlighted in gold ink; opening small initial capital in gold on a foliate ground. Marbled pastedowns. Late 17th or early 18th century full calf with giltstamped covers and spine, blindstamped wavy pattern to covers. All edges gilt. Housed in a modern fitted cloth case. 
Finely illuminated Baroque manuscript: an excellent example of Counter-Reformatory piety and the persistence of the symbols of Christ?s passion in Catholic private devotion. - Includes 26 brightly coloured full-page miniatures of the instruments and scenes of the Passion, all but three on versos with the relevant text of St Augustine's sermons on facing rectos. Only five of the 26 images show human figures: the Crucifixion (appearing first), Judas?s Kiss, Pontius Pilate, the Centurion and the Workman, and the two thieves on Golgotha. Each of the remaining images (the Arma Christi, the bloodied hands and heart of Christ, the dice, the ladder, and other emblems of the Passion) floats alone on a stark white background, emphasizing the potent symbolism of its materiality. Many of these objects are attached by long ribbons that appear to hold the objects aloft, further underlining the incarnation of divine power. The manuscript further comprises the Seven Penitential Psalms, followed by the Act of Contrition and other prayers, along with other excerpts from St Augustine. - Although the work is not dated and lacks identifying marks, the style of the illumination, the colouring, and the binding suggest that it was produced in Central Europe, presumably Austria or Bohemia, during the second half of the 17th or early 18th century. The small size of this luxuriously produced devotional manuscript implies that it was intended to be carried on one?s person. Worship of the instruments of Christ?s Passion held an important place in medieval popular religion and enjoyed a renaissance in Reformation Europe. "It is precisely in the arma's capacity to move between settings and adapt to different media (manuscript, print, and inscription) [...] that we can understand the persistent vitality of the instruments of the Passion in post-medieval pieties" (Gayk 274f.). - Hinges and extremities very faintly rubbed. Exceptionally well preserved. An unusual and lovely ?macrominiature? manuscript of the Arma Christi, measuring just under 3? inches. - Formerly in the library of the American collector and philanthropist Cornelius J. Hauck (1893-1967) of Cincinnati, Ohio, with his bookplate mounted to pastedown. Sold at Christie?s New York, 27 June 2006, lot 442. - Cf. Gayk, Early Modern Afterlives of the Arma Christi, in The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: Objects, Representation, and Devotional Practice (Burlington, 2014), 273-307.
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