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Painting --- manuscripts [documents] --- miniatures [paintings] --- history [discipline] --- biology --- handschriften --- biologie --- geschiedenis --- medische wetenschappen --- miniaturen --- kruidenboeken

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This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles – as an artefact of the early modern book market as well as the longue-durée tradition of Western learned magic –, thus taking a new stance towards scribal texts that are often regarded as eccentric, peripheral, or marginal. The study is structured by the apparent exceptionality, scarcity, and illegality of the collection, and provides chapters on clandestine activities in European book markets, questions of censorship regimes and efficiency, the use of manuscripts in an age of print, and the history of learned magic in early modern Europe. As the collection has survived till this day in Leipzig University Library, the book provides a critical edition of the 1710 selling catalogue, which includes a brief content analysis of all extant manuscripts. The study will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields, such as early modern book history, the history of magic, cultural history, the sociology of religion, or the study of Western esotericism.

Book history --- History of Europe --- manuscripts [documents] --- magic [occult science] --- bookselling --- book history

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Book history --- manuscripts [documents] --- miniatures [paintings] --- illuminated manuscripts --- handschriften --- miniaturen --- Cistercians --- Flanders

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For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean--and the civilized world--for the first time in human history. In The Pharaoh's Treasure, John Gaudet looks at this pivotal transition to papyrus paper, which would become the most commonly used information medium in the world for more than 4,000 years. Far from fragile, papyrus paper is an especially durable writing surface; papyrus books and documents in ancient and medieval times had a usable life of hundreds of years, and this durability has allowed items like the famous Nag Hammadi codices from the third and fourth century to survive. The story of this material that was prized by both scholars and kings reveals how papyrus paper is more than a relic of our ancient past, but a key to understanding how ideas and information shaped humanity in the ancient and early modern world.

Paper --- Papermaking --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Papyri, Egyptian --- Papyrus manuscripts --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments --- History --- Manufacturing technologies --- books --- manuscripts [documents] --- papermaking --- paper [fiber product] --- Egypt

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handschriften --- miniatures [paintings] --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- miniaturen --- manuscripts [document genre] --- Publishers. Printers --- France --- Handschriften --- Manuscrits --- Peinture --- Schilderkunst --- 091 <44> --- 091.31 <44> --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- 091.31 <44> Verluchte handschriften--Frankrijk --- 091 <44> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frankrijk --- manuscripts [documents] --- Jean de Berry