Lunula Hypocritis, an Unbound Copybook with Geometrical Problems, Solutions, and Notes on Making Saltpeter, Dyeing Woods, Creating Colors

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Lunula Hypocritis, an Unbound Copybook with Geometrical Problems, Solutions, and Notes on Making Saltpeter, Dyeing Woods, Creating Colors

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Item No: frkm121000
Title: Lunula Hypocritis, an Unbound Copybook with Geometrical Problems, Solutions, and Notes on Making Saltpeter, Dyeing Woods, Creating Colors
Scripts/Text: Cursive
Language: German; English; Latin; French; Italian
Physical Description: 22 leaves
Material: laid paper; ink
Watermark: Priest-like figure; left side (most of page); [48]
Category: Commonplace book (Tagebuch)
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Manuscript booklet.

No binding: a modern paper folder has been added in the conservation process, pamphlet-bound.

Titles of some excerpts

  • Allerhand Exempel aus der Gesellschaffts= oder Alligations= Rechnung aufzulösen
  • Formular eines gemeines Bands [Excerpt is in English]
  • Von Teilung der Figuren
  • Aufgabe die Mittags Linie, Sonnen= und Polus Höhe zu finden
  • Aufgabe Eine horizontal=Sonnen=Uhr zumachen
  • Englischen Tombac zu machen aus dem Hamburger=Magazin 
    Tom XV. Pag 3
  • Gold-Vernis [In French]
  • Schwarze Holz=bein
  • Wiessen Stub Firniss
  • Roth bein zu beizen
  • Fischers Knopf zu machen
  • Merzo Contal il’ fuoco
  • Exempel aus d Zauber Arithmetic
  • Salpeter sieden
  • Holz schön Schwarz zu färben
  • Recepte pour fair une Couleur bleuve qui egale en Bontè 
    et finesse Contre-mer
  • Aus Hills Arithmetic

Provenance: Brenner, Scott Francis, 1903-

Bibliography:

William Algernon Churchill, Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII Centuries (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1935), Repr. 1967, 1985, and 1990).

Thomas L. Gravell and George Miller, A Catalogue of Foreign Watermaks Found on Paper Used in America, 1700-1835 (New York: Garland, 1979).

Thomas L. Gravell and George Miller, American Watermarks 1690-1835 (New Castle, De: Oak Knoll Press, 2002).

Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries
(Hilversum, The Netherlands: Paper Publications Society, 1950), Repr. 19157 and 1969.

Dard Hunter, Papermaking In Pioneer America (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952).
 



Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 1783
Image Dimensions Width: 27 cm
ShelfMark: FLP Borneman Ms. 121

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