Simon, Kilian
- Date:
- 1740 -1771
- Manuscripts
About this work
Description
Album of architectural sketches, designs for mazes, an astronomical and agricultural calendar, extracts, notes, and quotations in German and Latin: with a few medical receipts. On the first leaf within a pen-drawn architectural frame is written: 'In usum P. Kiliani Simon Ord. S. Ben. ad S. Stephan Wirceb[urg] Professi 1740'. The first 61 ff. contain 'oeconomicae et astronomicae ex antiquitate collectae'-a kind of agricultural calendar, in German. The medical receipts are found on the versos of ff. 2-68: they have a title: 'Verschiedene versuchte and approbirte Haus-Mittel f?r allerley Zust?ndt and Kranckheiten'. The latest date, 1771, is found in a chronogram in pencil on fol. 143v. Produced in W?rzburg.
Publication/Creation
1740 -1771
Physical description
1 volume
148 folios oblank 8vo. 121/2 ? 14 cm. Original morocco binding, with brass clasp. Foleave 145 has been cut out.
148 folios oblank 8vo. 121/2 ? 14 cm. Original morocco binding, with brass clasp. Foleave 145 has been cut out.
Biographical note
In Sotheby's Catalogue this MS. is entered under 'Kilian', but it seems more probable that the Author's name was 'Simon'-possibly a member of the Kilian family. An artist Philip Andreas Kilian [1714-1759] is recorded-but he did not live at W?rzburg, and was not a Benedictine monk.
Creator/production credits
Simon, Kilian
Language note
In German, Latin.
Ownership note
From the Rosenheim Collection, with a label and press-mark 'A.i.'
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location of original
Wellcome Library; GB.
Location Status Access Closed storesMS.4605