Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Hybrid books.
Poems.
Epigrams.
Travel literature.
Emblems (allegorical pictures)
Chronicles.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin and German.

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.

Contents:

Prognosticon sive calendarium perpetuum de anni qualitate et futuris temporibus, f. 1r-4v.
Regulae nuptiales, f. 4v.
Collegium sive secta fraternitatis securorum, f. 5r-6r.
Colloquium regis Salomonis cum Marcolpho, f. 6v-8v.
Novi anni apprecatio [1695], f. 9r.
[Calendar pictures], f. 11r-23r.
Dicteria proverbialia rhythmica ab antiquitate mutuata, f. 32r-76r.
Aenigmata logogrijphi, f. 77r-85v (?).
Versus veteres proverbiales, leonini et rithmici, f. 88r-99v.
Epigrammata selectiora / Melchior Adam Pastorius, f. 100r-110r.
Nationum differentia, f. 120r.
[Poems in German on the seasons and the months], f. 132r-136v.
Von Aesopi Klugheit, f. 142r-143v.
De philosophis et eorum sectis [in German], f. 144r-v.
Philosophorum vita, f. 145r-165v.
Subsidium poeticum in componendo carmine, f. 168r-169v.
Beijhülffe zu denen teutschen Versen, f. 187r, 188v-195r.
Philosophia / Melchior Adam Pastorius [1689], f. 196r-197r.
[Poems and discourses on the earth, the elements, fauna and flora, in Latin and German], f. 199r-217v.
Schatz-Kammer ... über die vornehmbste Welt Geschichte, von derselben Erschaffunge an, bis uff unsere Zeitten / Melchior Adam Pastorius, f. 226r-235v.
De inventionibus rerum, f. 236r-v.
Continuatio biblischer Geschichte, f. 237r-v.
[On islands, mountains, rivers, and cities, in German], f. 238r-244r.
Von dem Rathhause zu Augspurg, f. 247v-249v.
De Turri et Templo Argentinensi, f. 250r.
[On various places, including Erfurt, Vienna, Ulm, Schwäbisch Hall, Ghent, Venice], f. 250v-253r.
De peregrinatione, von der Nutzbarkeit des Reisens, f. 254r-255v.
Notabillia Roma, 2 leaves between f. 255 and 256
Peregrinationis dissuasio, Sage mir was hastu zu Rom gesehen? f. 256r.
Zu welchen Zeitten sich die vornehmbsten Geschichte der Welt begeben haben, f. 259r-v.
Herbarum appellationes in den Apotheken, f. 262r-266v.
[Emblems], f. 287r-336r, 343r, 353r-v.
Threni istri et rheni, f. 375r-377v.
Von der Statt Paris [in German and Latin], 386r-395r.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Script: Written in a book script, with German passages in a German cursive hand.
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.
Binding: Contemporary (?) leather (Zacour-Hirsch), with remnants of clasp straps.
Origin: Written in Windesheim, Neustadt-on-the-Aisch, or Nuremberg, in Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken), Bavaria, Germany, ca. 1695-1702.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 91 (Ms. German 55).

Publications about:

Schmitt, Albert R. Des Melchior Adam Pastorius von 1670 bis 1696 Bürgermeisters der Reichsstadt Windsheim, Leben und Reisebeschreibungen von ihm selbst erzählt und nebst dessen lyrischen Gedichten als Beitrag zum deutschen Barock (Munich: Delp, 1968), pp. 13-14, 83-97.
Learned, Marion Dexter. The life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown (Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1908), p. 46.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1151

Contributor:

Sadler, Justus, engraver.
Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921, former owner.

Contains:

Gärtner, Andreas.
Neander, Michael.

OCLC:

221682243

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