Stifft, Andreas Joseph von (1760-1836)

Patent of Tyrolese Nobility, signed by Prince Carl von Auersperg [1750-1822]: in German. Calligraphically written in large gothic script, within pen-drawn borders. Produced in Vienna.

1816

1 volume 4 ll. (first & last bl.). folio. 30 × 26 cm. On vellum: crimson velvet binding with 4 red and white silk ties, and appended red wax seal in a flat round brass case (diameter 8 cm.): in the original metal container.

Purchased 1934.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).