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Add MS 8251

Record Id:
032-002029114
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029114
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000260
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8251
Title:

JOHANN RWYKTER: De Adamidarum Origine; 1604. Latin transl. Copy, 1690. An abridged universal history dedicated to Johann Adam von Bicken, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1601- Jan. 1604). The text is divided into three books (ff. 3, 12v, 34). It begins by describing Adam's descent and how Sem, Cham and Japheth, sons of Noah, generated three different races; it continues with the genealogies of the kings of subsequent kingdoms. Chapters IV-VI of the third book relate to the genealogy of the kingdoms of Denmark, Jutland and the Scandinavian peninsula, other chapters relate to the Longobard, Italian and European kingdoms to circa 1420. The text preserved in the present MS. is an anonymous Latin translation of the original German text. Title (f. 1) 'De Adamidarum origine' and (f. 2) 'Ioannis Rwykter Upsalensis / De Adamidarum Origine / Chronicon Genealogicum in tres libres distributum / Amplissimo Principi Ioanni Adamo Sacro Romano Impero Electore Archiepiscopo Moguntino dicatum anno Domini 1604 / Nunc vero a multi erroribus ... repurgatum ... / Ab Anonymo e lingua Germanica in latinitatem restitutum et cum nonnullis aliis exemplaribus mm.ss. fideliter comprobatum / Romae anno Domini 1690', inc. (f. 3) 'Jo. Rwykter Upsalensis / De Adamidarum Origine / Liber I / Difficillimum est in presenti calamitoso hoc saeculo', expl. (f. 49v) 'Jo. Carolus iste qui amplitudini Vestrae librum de Natura aevum dedicavit'. Stamp (f. 2) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri (identifiable with Falconieri MS. 40 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 4). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '578' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8361 and 8512, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 578 (part).

Paper; ff. 49+xxi. Old pagination in ink '1-92' (ff. 3-49v), omitting ff. 14v-15. 183 x 131mm. With running titles; horizontal catchwords inconsistently on each leaf. One hand. Late 17th-early 18th cent. binding of full vellum.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th - early 18th cent.

Chronicles: Johann Rwykter, of Uppsala: Johann Adam von Bicken, Archbishop Elector of Mainz: Universal history for Johann Adam von Bicken by Johann Rwykter: 1604: Lat. transl.: Copy, 1690.

includes:

  • f. 2 Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029114
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Hierarchy:
032-002029114
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1690
End Date:
1690
Date Range:
1690
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 578, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Falconieri family; of Rome: Owned (MS. 40) in 1770.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bicken, Johann Adam von, Archbishop Elector of Mainz
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Falconieri, Family
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Rwykter, Johann, of Uppsala