Item Info

Scripts/Text: Cursive
Language: German; English; Latin; French; Italian
Physical Description: 22 leaves
Material: laid paper; ink
Watermark: Priest-like figure; left side (most of page); [48]
Category: Commonplace book (Tagebuch)
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Manuscript booklet.

No binding: a modern paper folder has been added in the conservation process, pamphlet-bound.

Titles of some excerpts

• Allerhand Exempel aus der Gesellschaffts= oder Alligations= Rechnung aufzulösen
• Formular eines gemeines Bands [Excerpt is in English]
• Von Teilung der Figuren
• Aufgabe die Mittags Linie, Sonnen= und Polus Höhe zu finden
• Aufgabe Eine horizontal=Sonnen=Uhr zumachen
• Englischen Tombac zu machen aus dem Hamburger=Magazin 
  Tom XV. Pag 3
• Gold-Vernis [In French]
• Schwarze Holz=bein
• Wiessen Stub Firniss
• Roth bein zu beizen
• Fischers Knopf zu machen
• Merzo Contal il’ fuoco
• Exempel aus d Zauber Arithmetic
• Salpeter sieden
• Holz schön Schwarz zu färben
• Recepte pour fair une Couleur bleuve qui egale en Bontè 
  et finesse Contre-mer
• Aus Hills Arithmetic

Provenance: Brenner, Scott Francis, 1903-

Bibliography:

William Algernon Churchill, Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII Centuries (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1935), Repr. 1967, 1985, and 1990).

Thomas L. Gravell and George Miller, A Catalogue of Foreign Watermaks Found on Paper Used in America, 1700-1835 (New York: Garland, 1979).

Thomas L. Gravell and George Miller, American Watermarks 1690-1835 (New Castle, De: Oak Knoll Press, 2002).

Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries
(Hilversum, The Netherlands: Paper Publications Society, 1950), Repr. 19157 and 1969.

Dard Hunter, Papermaking In Pioneer America (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952).
 

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 1783
Image Dimensions Width: 27 cm
ShelfMark: FLP Borneman Ms. 121