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Title

Literary and historical miscellany

Authors

• Pastorius, Melchior Adam, 1624-1702
• Gärtner, Andreas
• Neander, Michael

Other related names

• Sadler, Justus, engraver
• Rosengarten, J. G. 1835-1921, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1151
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942926943503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4292694

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin and German

Origin

Date

ca. 1695-1702

Place

Middle Franconia, Germany

Summary

Miscellany compiled by Melchior Adam Pastorius, including poems, proverbs, epigrams, chronicles, emblems (pasted-in pictures, usually accompanied by text), arithmetic tables, and prose discourses from a variety of sources, some possibly composed by the writer. Interspersed are literary aids such as lists of Latin synonyms or related terms (f. 121r-124v), of Latin vocabulary (animal names, f. 167r-v), and of German-Latin vocabulary (f. 187v-188r, 201v); a list of Latin words with metric scansion that was apparently meant to be continued (f. 168r-169v); and a German rhyming dictionary (f. 187r, 188v-195r). The manuscript is predominantly in Latin, with significant portions in German, including poems, and discursive writing on topics such as philosophy and philosophers, history, geography, natural science, and travel. The early items (through the Dicteria proverbialia, ending f. 76r) are heavily influenced by Andreas Gärtner's Dicteria proverbialia, published in the second half of the 16th century, though Pastorius does not cite Gärtner. His Versus veteres proverbiales (f. 88r-99v) are drawn from Michael Neander's work of that title, also published in the 16th century, also unattributed in the manuscript. Some sections have what appear to be title pages with Pastorius's name (f. 100r, 196r, 226r), or his name is given in the text (anagrams, f. 101v, 133r). One text (Philosophia, f. 196r) appears to be a copy of a speech given by him in Windesheim in 1689. Possibly some material is copied or excerpted from other sources (Henrico Bon Compagni/Henricus Boncompagnus, f. 111r-v). An index (f. 401r-404r) covers the entire codex (examples of entries: afflictio, bibliotheca, Christus, curiositas, educatio, fortuna, humilitas, Kräuter Nahmen, loquacitas, martyrium apostolorum, nasse Bruderschaft, occulta, tempus fugit). The recto of the front flyleaf bears a note (in a different hand) about a work by Pastorius, Pleraque, si non omnia, quae coelum, aether, terra, mare in se continent, or, alternatively, Bibliotheca universalissima, dated 1699, that is in the possession of H. E. (?) Kiefhaber of Nuremberg.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

367 leaves : 157-158 x 97 mm. bound to 164 x 103 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 367; 1-231, 233-255, [ii], 256-264, [i], 265-276, [i], 277-283, 287-291, 293, 296, 325, 327-330, 334-336, 338-401, [402-404] (a total of 78 folios are blank). Contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Lower half of f. 289 is torn off.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (?) leather (Zacour-Hirsch), with remnants of clasp straps.

Decoration

Pasted-in engravings illustrating the months of the year (f. 11-19, 21-23); pasted-in engravings related to Upper and Lower Bavaria (f. 246v-247r); Stars of David, or hexagrams, drawn in pencil (f. 269v, 270v); mathematical tables for multiplication and division (f. 271r-v, 272v); pen-and-ink drawings of brewers and shepherds (f. 272r) illustrating mathematical points, and of Gordian knots (f. 272r-v); pasted-in engravings as emblems, usually accompanied by handwritten text, in German and Latin (f. 287r-291v, 293r-v, 296r-v, 325r, 327r, 328r-330v, 334r, 335r, 336r, 343r, 353v); pasted-in portraits of Ambrosius and Pope Gregory I, with Latin motto printed below, engraved by Justus Sadler (f. 344r-v); pasted-in engraved portraits (f. 343v, 345r-349v) of Seneca, Julius Caesar, Aegyptius Hermes, Hebraea Maria, Arnoldus de Villanova, Thomas Aquinas, Melchior Cibinensis, Democritus, Albertus Magnus, and others, with name printed in border; pasted-in engravings, usually with printed titles, illustrating Christian ranks or roles (recto sides of f. 355-365, 368-374), such as pope, cardinal, bishop, Benedictine.

Script

Written in a book script, with German passages in a German cursive hand.

Provenance

• Gift of J. G. Rosengarten (Philadelphia), 1908.
   

Subjects topical

• German poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Germany
• Cosmogony--Early works to 1800
• Emblems--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Hybrid books
• Poems
• Epigrams
• Travel literature
• Emblems (allegorical pictures)
• Chronicles
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Prognosticon sive calendarium perpetuum de anni qualitate et futuris temporibus, f. 1r
• fol. 4v — Regulae nuptiales, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Collegium sive secta fraternitatis securorum, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Colloquium regis Salomonis cum Marcolpho, f. 6v
• fol. 9r — Novi anni apprecatio [1695], f. 9r
• fol. 11r — Calendar pictures, f. 11r
• fol. 32r — Dicteria proverbialia rhythmica ab antiquitate mutuata, f. 32r
• fol. 77r — Aenigmata logogrijphi, f. 77r
• fol. 88r — Versus veteres proverbiales, leonini et rithmici, f. 88r
• fol. 100r — Epigrammata selectiora / Melchior Adam Pastorius, f. 100r
• fol. 120r — Nationum differentia, f. 120r
• fol. 132r — Poems in German on the seasons and the months, f. 132r
• fol. 142r — Von Aesopi Klugheit, f. 142r
• fol. 144r — De philosophis et eorum sectis, f. 144r
• fol. 145r — Philosophorum vita, f. 145r
• fol. 168r — Subsidium poeticum in componendo carmine, f. 168r
• fol. 187r — Beijhu?lffe zu denen teutschen Versen, f. 187r
• fol. 187v — German-Latin vocabulary, f. 187v
• fol. 188v — Beijhu?lffe zu denen teutschen Versen (continued), f. 188v
• fol. 196r — Philosophia, f. 196r
• fol. 199r — Poems and discourses on the earth, the elements, fauna and flora, in Latin and German, f. 199r
• fol. 226r — Schatz-Kammer ... u?ber die vornehmbste Welt Geschichte, von derselben Erschaffunge an, bis uff unsere Zeitten, f. 226r
• fol. 287r — Emblems, f. 287r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 11r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 12r
• fol. 13r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 14r
• fol. 15r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 15r
• fol. 16r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 16r
• fol. 17r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 17r
• fol. 18r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 18r
• fol. 19r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 19r
• fol. 21r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 21r
• fol. 22r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 22r
• fol. 23r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 23r
• fol. 287r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 287r
• fol. 287v — Pasted-in engraving, f. 287v
• fol. 288r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 288r
• fol. 288v — Pasted-in engraving, f. 288v
• fol. 289r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 289r
• fol. 289v — Pasted-in engraving, f. 289v
• fol. 290r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 290r
• fol. 290v — Pasted-in engraving, f. 290v
• fol. 291r — Pasted-in engraving, f. 291r
• fol. 291v — Pasted-in engraving, f. 291v