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Title

Buch von den probierten Künsten

Authors

• Helm, Franz, approximately 1500-1567

Other related names

• Dupeireux, Girard, former owner
• Holnstein aus Bayern, Franz Ludwig, Graf von, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 442
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949206643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793014035
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4920664

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German

Origin

Date

between 1585 and 1599?

Place

Bavaria

Summary

Manual concerning the manufacture and use of gunpowder, ammunition, mines, grenades, flares, smokescreens, and traps, as well as the loading and firing of cannons. Concludes with a copy of the privileges of the guild of cannon-masters (Buchsenmaister) as granted by Frederick III in 1444 (f. 126r-133v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Cross in circle belonging to Piccard Three Mounts, Class X, nos. 2879-3059 (mainly Munich and Augsburg, also Donauwörth and the Tyrol, 1555-1635).

Extent

132 leaves : 305 x 190 (217 x 130) mm. bound to 307 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 132; 2-76, [i], 77-130, 132-133; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather, stamped and gold-tooled (but varnished and blackened), over late-18th or early-19th-century-leather over wooden boards.

Layout

Written in 27-28 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

30 illustrations in colored ink or colored washes over ink drawings, most being of types of weapons and explosives, with 2 illustrations of cannon-masters framed in red ink (f. 2r, 105r) and a landscape showing the use of animals to carry explosives into a city, also framed in red ink (f. 60r); headings in red and black.

Script

Written in German cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Girard Dupeireux (no. 124), perhaps a gift from his brother-in-law (Schwager), Baron Valentin von E[??], 1731 (inscription, f. 2v).
   
• Formerly owned by Franz Ludwig, Graf von Holnstein aus Bayrn (armorial bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Furstl. Ysenburg und Büdingen'sche Bibliothek zu Büdingen (library stamps, f. 2v, 3r)
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2002.
   
• 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
• Guilds--Germany

Genres

• Codices
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 2r — Illustration, Cannon master, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Owner note, f. 2v
• fol. 2v — Owner stamp, f. 2v
• fol. 32r — Illustration, f. 32r
• fol. 36v — Illustration, f. 36v
• fol. 39r — Illustration, f. 39r
• fol. 41r — Illustration, f. 41r
• fol. 48v — Illustration, f. 48v
• fol. 49v — Illustration, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Illustration, f. 50r
• fol. 52v — Illustration, f. 52v
• fol. 53r — Illustration, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Illustration, f. 53v
• fol. 54v — Illustration, f. 54v
• fol. 59r — Illustration, f. 59r
• fol. 60r — Illustration, f. 60r
• fol. 64v — Illustration, f. 64v
• fol. 66v — Illustration, f. 66v
• fol. 70v — Illustration, f. 70v
• fol. 72v — Illustration, f. 72v
• fol. 73r — Illustration, f. 73r
• fol. 73v — Illustration, f. 73v
• fol. 74r — Illustration, f. 74r
• fol. 76v — Illustration, f. 76v
• fol. 77v — Illustration, f. 77v
• fol. 80r — Illustration, f. 80r
• fol. 81v — Illustration, f. 81v
• fol. 82v — Illustration, f. 82v
• fol. 83v — Illustration, f. 83v
• fol. 87r — Illustration, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Illustration, f. 87v
• fol. 105r — Illustration, f. 105r