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Title

Feuer Buech

Authors

• Helm, Franz, approximately 1500-1567

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 109
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903174
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580451

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German

Origin

Date

1584

Place

Germany

Summary

Treatise on munitions and explosive devices, with many illustrations of the various devices and their uses.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r); other manuscripts of the same text titled Buch von den probierten Künsten.
   
• Incipit of title page (f. 1r): Feuer Buech, durch Eurem gelertten Kriegs verstenndigen mit grossem Vleis auss villen Probiertten Kunsten ...
   
• The illustrations in this manuscript are similar to those in Berlin, Staatsb. ms. germ. qu. 1188. In his study of the text, W. Hassenstein gives no date for the Berlin manuscript, although it appears to be 15th century (cf. Hassenstein, Das Feuerwerkbuch von 1420 (Munich, 1941), p. 121). Compare Hassenstein, Bild 33 with f. 174r of the present manuscript, and Hassenstein, Bild 34 with f. 185v.
   
• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet 257 (Graz, 1582).

Extent

235 leaves : 307 x 200 (220 x 122) mm. bound to 313 x 209 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 235 + i; [1-235]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords used only when a rubric follows, and can be on any page, recto or verso, in lower right corner.

Collation

[i], [I, II]-[XIX, XX]³ ⁵, XXI², [XXII-XXIII]-[XXVIII-XXIX]⁵ ³, XXX⁴(-1), [i]; i.e., alternating quires of 3 and 5, except for quire XXI² and quire XXX⁴(-1). First and last leaf are endleaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

Limp vellum with three concentric botanical borders and stamp in center of upper cover with the arms of Freiherr von Clam. Sewn on five split bands with decorative endbands.

Layout

Written in 20-22 lines, frame ruled in red ink.

Decoration

Thirty-four illustrations in color, two of which (ff. 159v and 160v) are pasted in, possibly cut from another manuscript (the paper is of a different quality, the color palette is different, and ascenders from another hand are visible at the bottom of the illustration on f. 159v). Extensive rubrication.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Subjects topical

• Chemistry--History
• Explosives--Early works to 1800
• Fireworks--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Early works to 1800
• Ordnance--Manufacture--History

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Germany
• German
• Drawing
• Science
• Paper
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated heading, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated heading, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 2r
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial, Initial W, f. 5r
• fol. 16r — Decorated heading, f. 16r
• fol. 32v — Decorated heading, f. 32v
• fol. 34v — Decorated heading, f. 34v
• fol. 37r — Decorated heading, f. 37r
• fol. 54v — Decorated heading, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Decorated heading, f. 55r
• fol. 55v — Illustration, Man, f. 55v
• fol. 60v — Decorated heading, f. 60v
• fol. 67v — Decorated heading, f. 67v
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 67v
• fol. 68r — Illustration, Two men, f. 68r
• fol. 83r — Illustration, Device, f. 83r
• fol. 83v — Decorated heading, f. 83v
• fol. 91v — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 91v
• fol. 96r — Decorated heading, f. 96r
• fol. 96r — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 96r
• fol. 99r — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 99r
• fol. 101v — Decorated heading, f. 101v
• fol. 105v — Decorated heading, f. 105v
• fol. 114v — Decorated heading, f. 114v
• fol. 114v — Illustration, Barrels, f. 114v
• fol. 116r — Decorated heading, f. 116r
• fol. 116r — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 116r
• fol. 116v — Decorated heading, f. 116v
• fol. 116v — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 116v
• fol. 121v — Illustration, Devices, f. 121v
• fol. 122r — Illustration, Device, f. 122r
• fol. 122v — Decorated heading, f. 122v
• fol. 122v — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 122v
• fol. 123v — Decorated heading, f. 123v
• fol. 123v — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 123v
• fol. 125r — Decorated heading, f. 125r
• fol. 125r — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 125r
• fol. 133v — Decorated heading, f. 133v
• fol. 133v — Illustration, Man on horse with explosive device, f. 133v
• fol. 137r — Illustration, Cat and bird with explosive devices, f. 137r
• fol. 145r — Decorated heading, f. 145r
• fol. 145r — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 145r
• fol. 148r — Decorated heading, f. 148r
• fol. 148r — Illustration, Devices, f. 148r
• fol. 155v — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 155v
• fol. 159r — Decorated heading, f. 159r
• fol. 159v — Decorated heading, f. 159v
• fol. 159v — Illustration, Explosive devices
• fol. 160r — Decorated heading, f. 160r
• fol. 160r — Illustration, Devices, f. 160r
• fol. 160v — Decorated heading, f. 160v
• fol. 160v — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 160v
• fol. 161v — Decorated heading, f. 161v.
• fol. 161v — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 161v
• fol. 162r — Decorated heading, f. 162r
• fol. 162r — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 162r
• fol. 166v — Decorated heading, f. 166v
• fol. 166v — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 166v
• fol. 168r — Decorated heading, f. 168r
• fol. 168r — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 168r
• fol. 169v — Decorated heading, f. 169v
• fol. 169v — Illustration, Explosive devices and cauldron, f. 169r
• fol. 174r — Decorated heading, f. 174r
• fol. 174r — Illustration, Explosive devices, f. 174r
• fol. 176v — Decorated heading, f. 176v
• fol. 176v — Illustration, Explosive device, f. 176v
• fol. 177v — Decorated heading, f. 177v
• fol. 177v — Illustration, Devices, f. 177v
• fol. 178v — Illustration, Devices, f. 178v
• fol. 184r — Illustration, Barrel and device, f. 184r
• fol. 185v — Illustration, Devices, f. 185v
• fol. 194v — Illustration, Man loading cannon, f. 194v