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Title

Die eröffnete königliche ober hungarische Kuppfer-Handlung Schmölnitz, so wohl nach ihren inner-als aüsserlichen harmoniren den wesentlichen Theilen und Stücken ... etc.

Authors

• Multz von Walda, Georg Ernst

Other related names

• Erdődy, György, 1676-1758, dedicatee
• Freilich, Joseph A, former owner

Call number

LJS 402
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5183015
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5183015

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German, with dedications in Latin (p. 3-10)

Origin

Date

1743

Place

Germany or Slovakia

Summary

Technical work on the mining of copper in Schmölnitz, at the time in Hungary, later Smolnik in Slovakia. Includes discussion of smelting, with details on specific chemicals and processes. Followed by excerpts from mining regulations. Dedicated to György (Georgio in manuscript) Erdődy, count of Monyorókerek (Monyorokerik in manuscript) and Monoszlo (p. 3-10).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title page of predominant work (p. 1).
   

Extent

323 leaves : 205 x 162 (148 x 130) mm. bound to 211 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 323 + i; [i-ii], 1-19, [i-ii], 20-642; modern pagination in pencil, with numerous omissions, errors, and corrections, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary 18th-century calf, tooled with traces of gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, ties now lacking; patterned endpapers.

Layout

Written in 14-17 long lines.

Decoration

Pen-and-wash foldout frontispiece showing the operations at Smolnik from the north, with a peak in the background labeled Spizen-Berg (p. ii).

Script

Written in a German cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by bookseller and mineral dealer Joseph A. Freilich (Bayville, N.Y.; bookplate, verso of front endpaper).
   
• Sold at auction as part of the Freilich collection at Sotheby's, 10 Jan. 2001, lot 405, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Chemistry--Early works to 1800
• Copper mines and mining--Early works to 1800
• Copper mines and mining--Law and legislation--Holy Roman Empire

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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