Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

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

Biography/History:

Mining technician from Joachimsthal, a silver mining region in Bohemia, now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic.

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).

Contents:

1. p.13-412: Die eröffnete königliche ober hungarische Kuppfer-Handlung Schmölnitz, so wohl nach ihren inner-als aüsserlichen harmoniren den wesentlichen Theilen und Stücken.
2. p.419-634: Kurzer Ausszug der kaiserlichen und königlichen Maximilianischen Berg-Ordnung auch Cremnitz und Schemnitzer Erleütherungen.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from title page of predominant work (p. 1).
Pagination: 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.
Layout: Written in 14-17 long lines.
Script: Written in a German cursive script by a single hand.
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).
Binding: Contemporary 18th-century calf, tooled with traces of gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, ties now lacking; patterned endpapers.
Origin: Written in Germany or a region formerly of Hungary, now of Slovakia, in 1743 (p. 1, 419).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn 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.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 113 (LJS 402).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 402.

Contributor:

Erdődy, György, 1676-1758, dedicatee.
Freilich, Joseph A., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Contains:

Kurzer Ausszug der kaiserlichen und königlichen Maximilianischen Berg-Ordnung auch Cremnitz und Schemnitzer Erleütherungen.

OCLC:

759119377

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page