Knodius à Schlammersdorf, Philippus

Reconditae philosophiae monumenta. Illustrated with pen-drawings of astrological figures, and on p. 235 with a coloured wash drawing of a 'Speculum philosophicum regium', and on p. 243 with another of the same subject uncoloured, and possibly unfinished. Text partly in red ink. Author's holograph and unpublished work on astrological geomancy, dedicated on p. 1 to the Emperor Rudolph II [1552-1612].

1589

1 volume 248 pp. folio. 351/2 X 221/2 cm. Original calf binding. Upper corner of last leaf torn away, some margins frayed.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1935.

Below the date on p. 1, signature of 'Franciscus Ernestus Comes Waldestein, die 24 Mai Anno 1745' (Franz Ernst von Waldestein [1707-1748]). Inscribed inside the upper cover 'Liber inhibitus'.

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).