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Title

Buch von den probierten Kü̈̈nsten

Authors

• Helm, Franz, approximately 1500-1567

Other related names

• Ganser, Georg, scribe

Call number

Oversize LJS 254
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948588323503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/791454878
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4858832

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German

Origin

Date

after 1562

Place

Germany

Summary

Illustrated treatise on gunpowder and artillery; probably a copy of an early recension of Franz Helm's work Buch von den probierten Kü̈̈nsten that first appeared between 1527 and 1535. The title page includes language similar to that title and a date of 1562 (f. ii). The date is echoed in a note added at the end of the manuscript in another hand; this note also attributes the copying of the manuscript to Georg Ganser of Cham and suggests that it was translated from French into German (f. 265r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Briquet Armoiries 1242 (Vienna, 1566, with variations in southern Germany 1573-1599); Briquet Lettre P 8880 (Prague, 1558, with variations in Austria and southern Germany, 1543-1576), and a coat of arms containing a turret, supported by griffins rampant.

Extent

285 leaves : 320 x 210 (215 x 115) mm. bound to 323 x 230 mm

Collation

Paper, 285; 1¹⁰(-2) 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-8¹⁰ 9¹⁰(-8) 10¹⁰(-1) 11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(-4) 13¹⁰(-2) 14¹⁰ 15¹⁰(-1) 16¹⁰(-1) 17¹⁰(-4) 18-20¹⁰ 21¹⁰(-2) 22¹⁰(-2) 23-26¹⁰ 27¹⁰(-1) 28¹⁰ 29¹⁰(-3) 30¹⁰(-1) 31⁸ 32¹⁰(-6?); [i-xxvi], 1-52, 61-83, 88-92, 94, 96-111, 113-129, 131-133, 138-174, 177-186, 188-189, 191-238, 240-252, 254-255, 258-262, 264-270, [271-282]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; gatherings 4-29 signed A-I, K-T, V-Z, Z, a; catchwords on the last lower left verso of each gathering except for gatherings 3-4, 9 (leaf missing), 16 (leaf missing), 22 (leaf missing), and 29-32 (blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Limp parchment.

Layout

Written in 22-25 long lines; left vertical bounding line made by folding (giving each leaf 2 folds, with only one being used on each side as the left margin).

Decoration

Approximately 40 half- to full-page painted color illustrations of explosives and equipment for launching them or calculating trajectories (f. 49r-143r, 211v-246v); 4 double-page painted illustrations, 1 showing a large piece of equipment (f. 50v-51r) and 3 being of men operating cannons (f. 241v-242r, 242v-243r, 244v-245r); and 2 foldout painted illustrations of encampments surrounded by carts (f. 260r, 266r); one ornamented initial in penwork at the beginning of the foreword (f. iii recto).

Script

Written in German cursive script, with headings in German Gothic script, perhaps in the hand of Georg Ganser of Cham (added note, f. 265r).

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 21 May 1998, lot 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Artillery--Early works to 1800
• Explosives--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Paintings (visual works)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Illustration
• Treatise
• Science
• Paper
• Military art and science

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