Krohnemann, Christian Wilhelm von ( -1686)

  • Krohnemann, Christian Wilhelm von, d.1686
Date:
1677
Reference:
MS.3132
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Description

Von der Universal Tinctur. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with 50 large drawings in water-colour or wash, one double-page and six full-page, of furnaces and alchemical apparatus, flasks, etc. The dedication to the Princess of Brandenburg is signed 'Christian Wilhelm, Baro von Krohnemann. Actum Bayreuth den 10 Augusti. 1677'. Produced in Bayreuth.

Publication/Creation

1677

Physical description

1 volume 50 ll. (last 2 bl.). folio. 311/2 × 20 cm. Original pink and silver brocade binding, worn.

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Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's, 28/1/1935, Lot 16.

Biographical note

The author was condemned and executed as an impostor at Kulmbach in 1686. A full account of him was written by G. W. A. Fikenscher in 1800. (Cf. Ferguson. 'Bibliotheca Chemica', Vol. I, pp. 275, 276.)

Finding aids

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).

Ownership note

From the Library of Julius Kohn.

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  • 68060