sumptibus Io. Baptista Hommani. Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privil. S.C.M. Grat." Scales given in "milliaria Germanica, "milliaria Turcica," and ... Show moresumptibus Io. Baptista Hommani. Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privil. S.C.M. Grat." Scales given in "milliaria Germanica, "milliaria Turcica," and "mill. Italica." Main Heritage Compact General HC.HHO.MAP.01022 Print Map Item-ID: i26425750 BIB-ID: 2763673 Show less
Description and travel, DS412 .I263 1819, 425.4 Ib5d
ex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar,... Show moreex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar, south-western India. Original Arabic text, edited with a Latin translation and annotations by the Jena oriental scholar and entomologist Johann Heinrich Gottfried Apetz (1794-1857), a student of L. G. Kosegarten, to whom this effort is dedicated. - Ibn Battuta's famous "Rihla" (literally, "The Journey") is considered one of the most significant Mediaeval eyewitness accounts of the Middle East. Over a period of thirty years, the Muslim Moroccan explorer Abu-‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Batutah (1304-77?) visited most of the known Islamic world, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East - a distance surpassing his near-contemporary Marco Polo. He journeyed more than 75,000 miles, a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later, and is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. After returning home from his travels in 1354, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys to Ibn Juzayy, a scholar whom he had previously met in Granada. The account is the only source for Ibn Battuta's adventures. For centuries his book was obscure, even within the Muslim world, but in the early 19th century extracts were published in German and English based on manuscripts discovered in the Middle East, containing abridged versions of Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text. - Slight browning and duststaining; ownership "S. H. Lewin" (dated 1828) on t. p. Main Heritage Compact General DS412 .I263 1819 Book Item-ID: i16843642 BIB-ID: 1509208 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--15th to 18th centuries, Plague, Plague--Early works to 1800, R126 .A46 1555
Omnes nunc primum de Graeco accuratissime conversi, multisque in locis restituti & emendati, per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum ... (RHAZES).... Show moreOmnes nunc primum de Graeco accuratissime conversi, multisque in locis restituti & emendati, per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum ... (RHAZES). ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS. Libri duodecim. RAZAE de pestilentia libellus. Omnes nunc primum de Graeco accuratissime conversi, multique in locis restituti & emendati, per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum, Venice, Hieronymus Scotus, 1555. Small 8vo, 1 l(b.) + 16(t+index) + 494 + 1 + 1 + 1 l(b.) [with annotated leaves placed between text], with woodcut device on title and at colophon; several fine woodcut initials; old, faint library stamp on title; an interleaved copy with copious early annotations in red and brown ink; contemporary vellum; inscribed by the annotator "Friderici Sebizii sum Nisseni" in red ink on title, and "Emptus Weimar A0 1571 Mense Octo ..." (Bought at Weimar October 1571) at foot.A fine, extensively annotated copy of Alexander Trallianus' chief work, with Rhazes' De pestilentia appended. De pestilentia is generally known under the title Liber de variolis et morbillis (Kitab al-Jadari wa-l-hasba). In it Rhazes distinguished for the first time between smallpox and measles, and this work is considered to be a masterpiece of Muslim medicine.Born in the sixth century A. D. in Lydia in Asia Minor, Alexander travelled extensively, finally settling in Rome to practice as a physician. His Twelve Books is a general work on pathology and therapy of disease, based on practical experience. His work was available in numerous Greek and Latin translations, and was much consulted by Arabic physicians.The translation from the Greek is by Guinter of Andernach, "one of the major Greek scholars of the day ... In particular he devoted his scholarship to translations of the classical writers on medicine" (DSB).The annotations by Friedrich Sebitz (or Sebisch) of Silesia, are of such a nature and so extensive, that it seems likely that he intended to publish a revised edition or commentary on Trallianus' and Rhazes' works. Choulant p. 137; Durling 150;IA 103.402; Waller 347 (variant); Wellcome 211. Translation of Biblia iatrika duokaideka. First Latin version, published in 1504, has title: Practica. Main Heritage Shelves General R126 .A46 1555 Book Item-ID: i10137051 BIB-ID: 1015341 Show less
è castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, quam emendatissime editi. Additus est ad maiorem studiosorum commoditatem Index Ioannis Camertis Minoritani,... Show moreè castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, quam emendatissime editi. Additus est ad maiorem studiosorum commoditatem Index Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, quo Plynius ipse totus brevi more temporis edisci potest. Herausgeber: Johannes Baptista Palmarius (genannt auf Bl. II recto). Impressum nach Kolophon auf Bl. CCLXXXVI recto: "Editum est hoc Plynianum elegantissimum opus, sumptibus ornatissimorum virorum Ioannis Kobergii, ac Lucae Alantsee, impressum Hagenoae opera industriaque Thomae Anshelmi Badensis mense Nouembri anno. M.D. XVIII. Max. Aemiliano imperatore regnante, ex castigationibus Hermolai Barbari [quam?] accuratissime emendatum. "Cautum Max. Aemil. Aug. decreto privilegio, ne quis intra sexennium excudat" (in Schwarz). Signaturen: a-z⁸, &⁸, A-K⁸, L⁶, M⁸, a-m⁸ Titel in Rot-Schwarzdruck in Holzschnitteinfassung; Zierinitialen. Index mit eigener Titelseite, separatem Register und Kolophon: "Excusum, Hagenoae, typis ac formulis Thomae Anshelmi Badensis, ductu & auspicio, providi viri Lucae Alantseae Viennensis incolae. Anno a Christi natali. M.D. XVIII. Mense Novembri. Caesare Max. Aemiliano habenas moderante". Main Heritage Shelves General QH81 .P55 1518 Book Item-ID: i2196144x BIB-ID: 2346964 Show less
Astrology, Astrology--Early works to 1800, Astrology, QB26 .F57 1551
per Nicolaum Prucknerum astrologum nuper ab innumeris mendis uindicati. His accesserunt, Claudii Ptolemaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini [aootelesmaton]... Show moreper Nicolaum Prucknerum astrologum nuper ab innumeris mendis uindicati. His accesserunt, Claudii Ptolemaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini [aootelesmaton], quod Quadripartitum uocant, lib. IIII. De inerrantium stellarum significationibus, lib. I. Centiloquium eiusdem. Ex Arabibus et Chaldaeis. Hermetis uetustissimi astrologi Centum aphoris. lib. I. Bethem Centiloquium. Eiusdem De horis planetarum liber alius. Almanzoris astrologi Propositiones ad saracenorum regem. Zahelis arabis De electionibus lib. I. Messahalah De ratione circuli & stellarum, & qualiter in hoc seculo operentur, lib. I. Omar De natiuitatibus lib. III. Marci Manilii poetae disertissimi Astronomicōn lib. V. Postremò Othonis Brunfelsii De diffinitionibus & terminis astrologiae libellus isagogicus / Julius Maternus Firmicus. Main Heritage Shelves General QB26 .F57 1551 Book Item-ID: i22891699 BIB-ID: 1833323 Show less
quam ... in Alma propter Salam sub praesidio M. Christiani Hoffmanni, Wratislaviensis ; publico Eruditorum Examini ad diem Iulii Anni Christiani... Show morequam ... in Alma propter Salam sub praesidio M. Christiani Hoffmanni, Wratislaviensis ; publico Eruditorum Examini ad diem Iulii Anni Christiani 1669. sistit Johannes Melchin, Riga-Livonus, H.L.Q.C. Curious Jena dissertation, based on Arabic sources, about the ritual washing of corpses (ablution, "ghusl al-mayyit") to achieve the state of purity, or "Taharah". Also treats embalming and mummification (with reference to mummies in the Chilean andres and the burial practices of the Native Americans of Virginia). Several passages in Greek, some in Hebrew and Arabic. Dedicated to the Councils and Aldermen of both Riga Guilds. After completing his studies at Jena in 1671, Johann Melchin from Riga became pastor in Sissegall, Livonia, in 1683 (cf. Recke/Napiersky). - Duplicate from the Gotha Library with 19th-c. ms. note on t. p. Some browning. Main Heritage Compact General KBP184.46 .H64 1669 Book Item-ID: i16843599 BIB-ID: 1509203 674821001:38895650X Saint Thomas, n°381 Show less
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, QD25 .J33 1541
First edition of a miscellaneous work on Alchemy which gathers some works of different authors, being Gebri, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, considered the... Show moreFirst edition of a miscellaneous work on Alchemy which gathers some works of different authors, being Gebri, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, considered the father of the Arab chemistry, the author who opens the volume which includes parts of four of his works. His treatises are followed by a short one, Speculum Alchemiae, traditionally credited to Roger Bacon, on the origin and composition of metals; a work by Richardus Anglicus; and another treatise of the Arab author Khalid ibn Yazid al-Umawi. The volume ends with the Tabula Smaragdina and its comment. The Tabula Smaragdina is a concise, compact and cryptic piece reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia and its transmutation, highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art. It is attributed to Hermes Trimegistus but, virtually all literature ascribed to this name is incorrectly so attributed. Although technically it is not the name of a real person in origin, it became regarded as such from early times. This text was a popular summary of alchemical principles, wherein the secrets of the philosopher's stone were thought to have been described. The last text of the whole edition is a commentary by the medieval alchemist Hortulanus, who composed his commentary before 1325. It is the second part of a work in which Hortulanus believes alcohol or quintessence is the hidden primordial heat in all material things. Signatures: aa-bb⁴, cc2, a-z⁴, A-Z⁴, & Woodcuts in initials; xilographic paintings Main Heritage Shelves General QD25 .J33 1541 Book Item-ID: i2150054x BIB-ID: 1946517 Some of the text are translated from Arabic. Show less
Geometry, Geometry--Early works to 1800, QA31 .E93 1537
Illustrations: With numerous woodcut illustrations within text throughout. With a colophon on recto of final leaf (repeating imprint). Woodcut... Show moreIllustrations: With numerous woodcut illustrations within text throughout. With a colophon on recto of final leaf (repeating imprint). Woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of final leaf. Woodcut head-pieces and initials; text printed in Roman and Italic type. Main Heritage Shelves General QA31 .E93 1537 Book Item-ID: i24470909 BIB-ID: 2608607 Show less
Oriental languages, Oriental languages--Early works to 1800, Oriental languages, PJ70 .H6 1658
Reissued in the same year, with new material at front and back. Completed by the author's "Grammatica, quattuor linguarum" and "Promtuarium." Printer... Show moreReissued in the same year, with new material at front and back. Completed by the author's "Grammatica, quattuor linguarum" and "Promtuarium." Printer's device on t.p.; initials; ornaments. Signatures: [*]⁴ **² A-3Y⁴ 3Z². Indexes: p. 532-448 [i.e. 548]. Show less
[t. 1] pt. 1. Particula II. Codices, manuscriptos arabicos, argumenti philologici, carmina, opera rhetorica, fabulae [sic] romanenses et... Show more[t. 1] pt. 1. Particula II. Codices, manuscriptos arabicos, argumenti philologici, carmina, opera rhetorica, fabulae [sic] romanenses et narrationes complectens. Accedit: De numis orientalibus in Numophylacio gothana asservatis, commentatio 1.--Pt. 2. Particula I. Theologia. Jurisprudentia. Historia. Appendices I-II. auctore J.H. Moellero. Main Heritage Shelves General Z6621 .L36 1825 Book Item-ID: i22514612 BIB-ID: 2405314 Part 1-2 paged continuously. Each part has special t.p., part 1, dated 1825. Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, Medicine, R128.7 .J64 1663
Added engraved t.p. with illustrated border of notable medical figures. Date on t.p. made with turned Cs. Title vignette. Head- and tailpieces; initials. ... Show moreAdded engraved t.p. with illustrated border of notable medical figures. Date on t.p. made with turned Cs. Title vignette. Head- and tailpieces; initials. Printed in double columns. Includes indexes. Signatures: *⁴ A-4D⁴ ²A-²2P⁴ ²2Q² [$3 signed]. 2L3, first grouping, mis-signed 2L2. Errors in pagination: second grouping: no pages numbered 66-67. Text and register continuous. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.7 J64 1663 Book Item-ID: i2281792x BIB-ID: 2427924 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, Medicine, R128.7 .J64 1663
Added engraved t.p. with illustrated border of notable medical figures. Date on t.p. made with turned Cs. Title vignette. Head- and tailpieces; initials. ... Show moreAdded engraved t.p. with illustrated border of notable medical figures. Date on t.p. made with turned Cs. Title vignette. Head- and tailpieces; initials. Printed in double columns. Includes indexes. Signatures: *⁴ A-4D⁴ ²A-²2P⁴ ²2Q² [$3 signed]. 2L3, first grouping, mis-signed 2L2. Errors in pagination: second grouping: no pages numbered 66-67. Text and register continuous. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.7 .J64 1663 Book Item-ID: i23816053 BIB-ID: 2427924 Show less
History, Ancient, History, Ancient--Early works to 1800, DF234.6 .J87 1659, 930
Initials S.D.M.C. equals to Cornelis Schrevel. Title page is engraved, head piece, initials. Includes index. "Index in Justinum, auctore Joan.... Show moreInitials S.D.M.C. equals to Cornelis Schrevel. Title page is engraved, head piece, initials. Includes index. "Index in Justinum, auctore Joan. Freinshemio", [73] p. at end. Main Heritage Shelves General DF234.6 .J87 1659 Book Item-ID: i10118834 BIB-ID: 1013519 Show less
De nonnullis orientalium urbibus / A Gabr. Sionita (p. 3-112) -- Itinerario Hierosolymitano et syriaco / ex Iohannis Cotovici (p. 113-257) --... Show moreDe nonnullis orientalium urbibus / A Gabr. Sionita (p. 3-112) -- Itinerario Hierosolymitano et syriaco / ex Iohannis Cotovici (p. 113-257) -- Historia Arabum / Wolfang Drechsleri (p.259-297) First edition of the collection. Contains: 1. Sionita & Hesronita. De nonnullis orientalibus urbium. "This important work contains early descriptions of Baghdad, Bokhara, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, and Aleppo" (Blackmer). 2. "De moribus atque institutis Turcarum" by the French diplomat C. Richier. 3. W. Drechsler's "Historia Arabum". - From the library of the Vorarlberg lawyer Dr. Karl J. Steger. Waterstaining throughout. Engraved t.p. Title on added t.p.: De nonnullis orientalium urbibus, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita ... Running title: Vrbes et mores Orientalium. Numbers 270-279 omitted in pagination. Written by Gabriel Sionita, Joannes Hesronita, C. Richerius, J. Cotovicus, and others. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .A73 1633 Book Item-ID: i10058102 BIB-ID: 1510974 Show less
Islam, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS206 .A73 1635, 459 Ar11
De nonnvllis orientalivm vrbibvs, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita.--De moribus... Show moreDe nonnvllis orientalivm vrbibvs, necnon indigenarum religione ac moribus, tractatus brevis. A Gabr. Sionita ... ac Joanne Hesronita.--De moribus atque institutis Tvrcarvm Arabvm, aliarumque, quæ Mahumedem sequuntur, gentium. Operâ & studio Christophori Richerii.--Ex Joannis Cotovici Vltraiectini Itinerario hierosolymitano et syriaco, de sacris, ritibus, moribus & institutis Mahometæorum, excerpta.--Excerpta ex Lvdovici Godofredi Archontologia cosmica.--Arabiæ topographia & alia, ex Adriani Romani Theatro vrbium excerpta.--Wolfangi Drechsleri Historia Arabvm.--Appendix sive Excerpta ex Muhammedis Alfergani Astronomicis ... Accedunt præaterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur. Engraved t.p. Running title: Vrbes et mores orientalivm. Main Heritage Shelves General DS206 .A73 1635 Book Item-ID: i15534881 BIB-ID: 1007445 Show less
Barnabé Brisson. Cvra et opera Joh. Henrici Lederlini, Linguar. Orient. Prof. Publ. Ord. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .B75 1710 Book Item-ID:... Show moreBarnabé Brisson. Cvra et opera Joh. Henrici Lederlini, Linguar. Orient. Prof. Publ. Ord. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .B75 1710 Book Item-ID: i10077741 BIB-ID: 1009410 Show less
t. 1. Res gestas a Muhammede usque ad excidium chalifarum Ommiadarum continens.--t. 2. Continens res gestas sub chalifis Abbasidis, et Ommiadis in... Show moret. 1. Res gestas a Muhammede usque ad excidium chalifarum Ommiadarum continens.--t. 2. Continens res gestas sub chalifis Abbasidis, et Ommiadis in Hispania, usque ad a. CCCC.--t. 3. Continens res gestas ab a. CCCCI ad finem dynastiae chalifarum Fatemidarum a. DLXVII.--t. 4. Continens res gestas ab anno fugae CCCCI ad finem anni DCLX.--t. 5. et ultimus Continens quidquid restat de opere Abulfedae et indices. Opera et studiis Io. Iacobi Reiskii -- sumtibus atque auspiciis Petri Friderici Suhmii -- nunc primum edidit Iacobus Georgius Christianus Adler. Main Heritage Shelves General DS234 .A285 1789 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i23304467 BIB-ID: 2496462 Show less
t. 1. Res gestas a Muhammede usque ad excidium chalifarum Ommiadarum continens.--t. 2. Continens res gestas sub chalifis Abbasidis, et Ommiadis in... Show moret. 1. Res gestas a Muhammede usque ad excidium chalifarum Ommiadarum continens.--t. 2. Continens res gestas sub chalifis Abbasidis, et Ommiadis in Hispania, usque ad a. CCCC.--t. 3. Continens res gestas ab a. CCCCI ad finem dynastiae chalifarum Fatemidarum a. DLXVII.--t. 4. Continens res gestas ab anno fugae CCCCI ad finem anni DCLX.--t. 5. et ultimus Continens quidquid restat de opere Abulfedae et indices. Opera et studiis Io. Iacobi Reiskii -- sumtibus atque auspiciis Petri Friderici Suhmii -- nunc primum edidit Iacobus Georgius Christianus Adler. Main Heritage Shelves General DS234 .A285 1789 Book vol.4 Item-ID: i24269232 BIB-ID: 2496462 Show less
t. 1. Res gestas a Muhammede usque ad excidium chalifarum Ommiadarum continens.--t. 2. Continens res gestas sub chalifis Abbasidis, et Ommiadis in... Show moret. 1. Res gestas a Muhammede usque ad excidium chalifarum Ommiadarum continens.--t. 2. Continens res gestas sub chalifis Abbasidis, et Ommiadis in Hispania, usque ad a. CCCC.--t. 3. Continens res gestas ab a. CCCCI ad finem dynastiae chalifarum Fatemidarum a. DLXVII.--t. 4. Continens res gestas ab anno fugae CCCCI ad finem anni DCLX.--t. 5. et ultimus Continens quidquid restat de opere Abulfedae et indices. Opera et studiis Io. Iacobi Reiskii -- sumtibus atque auspiciis Petri Friderici Suhmii -- nunc primum edidit Iacobus Georgius Christianus Adler. Main Heritage Shelves General DS234 .A285 1789 Book vol.5 Item-ID: i24269256 BIB-ID: 2496462 Show less
Administrative and political divisions--Maps, G7431.F7 1737 .H6
sumtibus Io. Baptista Homanni. Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: "Tabula ex novissimis relationibus ad mentem de J. Islii, imprimis vero... Show moresumtibus Io. Baptista Homanni. Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: "Tabula ex novissimis relationibus ad mentem de J. Islii, imprimis vero celeberrimi Geographi D'mi I.M. Hasii Prof. Vitemb. delineatia." Watermark. Minimal level cataloging record. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HHO.MAP.01262 Print Map Item-ID: i26425695 BIB-ID: 1172533 Show less