‎Medieval Science in the North. Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 232 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588049.‎

‎Summary Medieval science has become an increasingly popular area of academic interest over the past couple of decades, but much of this work has up to now concentrated on France and the Mediterranean, while relatively little attention has been paid to the north of Europe. This has led to the assumption that Northern Europe stood aside from the mainstream of scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages, when in fact the region was a vital part of the medieval network of scientific scholarship. This important volume aims to redress the balance in scholarship by bringing together for the first time a collection of studies on medieval scientific knowledge that focuses on both Scandinavia and England. The essays gathered here examine topics as wide-ranging as the intellectual network between Denmark and Paris; the role of Dominican friars in spreading scientific knowledge in Scandinavia; the practical application of technology by English armourers; fragments of scientific manuscripts found in early modern Swedish documents; the use of scientific volumes and descriptions of university life in medieval Icelandic literature; and fresh insights into the careers of the English scientists Roger of Hereford, Roger Bacon, and Robert Grosseteste. Together, these papers show the dynamism and depth of science in the medieval North, and offer new insights into how scientific wisdom travelled through, across, and between the peoples of this region. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction - CHRISTIAN ETHERIDGE AND MICHELE CAMPOPIANO Roger of Hereford and the Transformation of Computus in Twelfth-Century England - C. PHILIPP E. NOTHAFT Travelling Optics: Robert Grosseteste and the Optics behind the Rainbow - GILES E. M. GASPER, BRIAN K TANNER, SIGBJ RN S NNESYN AND NADER EL-BIZRI Language and Wisdom: Mathematics and Astronomy in Bacon s Edition of the Secretum secretorum - MICHELE CAMPOPIANO Wisdom's Trips to Denmark - STEN EBBESEN Medieval Scientific Book Fragments Held in Swedish and Finnish Archives: The Tantalizing Remains of a Greater Scientific Corpus - CHRISTIAN ETHERIDGE Friars of Science: Dominican Transmission and Usage of Scientific Knowledge in Medieval Scandinavia - JOHNNY GRANDJEAN G GSIG JAKOBSEN Master Perus of Arabia: An Exemplary Magician in Medieval Iceland - MARTEINN HELGI SIGUR SSON Science in Medieval Fiction: The Case of Konr s saga keisarasonar - FLORIAN SCHRECK Continental Ironmongers, Whalers, Smugglers, and Craftsmen: Immigration and Trade Routes and their Influence on the London Armourers' Industry - BRAD KIRKLAND‎

‎Copye van een schriftlijck Antwoordt vande Coninghlijcke Majesteyt tot Dennemarcken ... etc. aende Roomsche Keyserliche Majesteyt, Midtsgaders Copije van een Reces, tusschen der Coninghlijcke Majesteyts tot Dennemarcken ... etc. Admiralen, Capiteynen ...‎

‎Amsterdam, Michul Colijn, 1613. 4to. (8) pp.‎

‎Bibl. Danica III:76.‎

‎Kurtze Relation welcher massen Königl. Maytt. zu Dennemarck, Norwegen, etc. die an Sie von den Herrn General Stadten der vereinigten Niederlande, abgeschickte Gesandten im ... Julio, Augusto, Septembri und Octobri annehmen, enthalten, zu Audientz komm...‎

‎Copenhagen, No printer, 1640. 4to. No wrappers. (32) pp.‎

‎Bibl. Danica III:102.‎

‎Den Stormægtigste Konges Christian den Fjerdes Konges til Danmark og Norge...Historie, ...Men efter...Befaling igiennemseet af Archiv-Documenter forbedret af Hans Gram. (1.-4. Part). 2 Bd.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn., Kgl. Majest. priv. Bogtrykkerie, 1749. Folio. 2 samtidige helldrbd. Ophøjede bind på rygge. Rygfelter med rig forgyldning. Titelfelter forgyldte. Rygge fint reparerede med bevarelse af oprindelige rygge. (4),10,1534,(1) pp. De 2 kobberstukne portrætter (Chr. IV og Slange) mangler. Indvendig ganske ren og velbevaret, få spredte brunpletter. På begge forreste friblade gl. ejernavn Michael Lassenius Lassen, 1757.‎

‎Originaludgaven af dette monumentalværk som fortsætter hvor Arild Huitfeld slap, og giver en indholdsrig fremstilling af Christian IV's begivenhedsrige historie.‎

‎Den Stormægtigste Konges Christian den Fjerdes Konges til Danmark og Norge...Historie, ...Men efter...Befaling igiennemseet af Archiv-Documenter forbedret af Hans Gram. (1.-4. Part).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn., Kgl. Majest. priv. Bogtrykkerie, 1749. Folio. Samtidigt helldrbd. med ophøjede bind på rygge. Forgyldt rygtitel. Øverste kapitæl og rygfelt repareret. Et par svagheder i false ved øverste og nederste rygfelt reparerede. Lille stempel på titelbladet. 10,(4),1534,(1) pp. 2 kobberstukne plancher, det ene Chr. IV i hel figur efter Carl von Manders maleri, stukket af C. Fritsch samt portræt af Slange, ligeledes stukket af Fritsch. Titelbladet med en ubetydelig revne øverst i indre fals. Udmærket rent eksemplar med brede marginer.‎

‎Originaludgaven af dette monumentalværk som fortsætter hvor Arild Huitfeld slap, og giver en indholdsrig fremstilling af Christian IV's begivenhedsrige historie.‎

‎Den Stormægtigste Konges Christian den Fjerdes Konges til Danmark og Norge...Historie, ...Men efter...Befaling igiennemseet af Archiv-Documenter forbedret af Hans Gram. (1.-4. Part).‎

‎Kjøbenhavn., Kgl. Majest. priviligerede Bogtrykkerie, 1749. Folio. To samtidigt hellæderbind med ophøjede bind på rygge. Forgyldt rygtitel . Begge bind med slitage, enkelte ormehuller samt dele af forgyldningen slidt bort. Bind 1 (Del 1-3) med gennemgående vandskjold i ydre overste hjørne. Pp. 591-676 strækker vandskjoldet sig ned i ydre margin. Bind 2 (Del 4) indvendig ren og pæn. (4),10, 1534,(1) pp. 2 kobberstukne plancher, det ene Chr. IV i hel figur efter Carl von Manders maleri, stukket af C. Fritsch samt portræt af Slange, ligeledes stukket af Fritsch. Titelbladet med en ubetydelig revne øverst i indre fals. Udmærket rent eksemplar med brede marginer.‎

‎Originaludgaven af dette monumentalværk som fortsætter hvor Arild Huitfeld slap, og giver en indholdsrig fremstilling af Christian IV's begivenhedsrige historie.‎

‎Geschichte Christian des Vierten Königs in Dännemark von Niels Schlangen... verfertigt: kürzer vorgetragen und mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen erweitert von Johann Heinrich Schlegeln. Erstes-Zweytes Buch (vom Jahr 1588 bis 1595, 1596-1612).‎

‎Kopenhagen und Leipzig, Pelt, 1757-59. 4to. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. stamp on title-page. (8),230,(6),231-582,(16) pp., 2 engraved plates.‎

‎First German edition. A ""Drittes Buch"" was published 12 years later (1771). - Bibl. Danica III,68.‎

‎Hertugdømmene Slesvig og Holsteens Historie. 2 Bd. Udg. paa Dansk af Joh. Ernst Heilmann, Med Forfatterens egne Forbedringer.‎

‎Odense, Iversens Forlag, 1776-77. 4to. 2 samt. helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Kapitæler lidt slidte. En forperm løs. 4 kobberstukne titelvignetter. På skrivepapir.‎

‎Geschichte der Herzogthümer Schleswig und Hollstein. 1.-4. Theil. + Register zu...Mit einer Nachricht von dem Leben und den Schriften ihres Verfassers herausgegeben von Valentin August Heinze.‎

‎Flensburg u. Leipzig, 1775-79 (und Register Kiel, Mohr, 1797). 4 cont. hcalf. Backs somewhat worn. Light browning to lvs. 4 engraved titlevignettes and 3 folded genealogical tables. Registerband in cont. boards.‎

‎Geschichte der Herzogthümer Schleswig und Hollstein. 1.-4. Theil (4 Bde, alles).‎

‎Flensburg & Leipzig, Kortschen Buchh., 1775-79. 8vo. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. 2 top of spines with wear. A label pasted on foot of spines. Stamp on title-pages. 4 engraved titlevignettes ( 3 in woodengr.) (16),XXXVI,(4),484(24),552(24),492(20),426 pp. and 3 folded genealogical tables. ‎

‎Hertugdømmene Slesvigs og Holsteens Historie. Udgivet paa Dansk af Joh. Ernst Heilmann. Med Forfatterens egne Forbedringer. 5 Bd.‎

‎Odense, Iversen, 1776-83. 4to. Indbundet i 5 ensartede samtidige hldrbd. 4 kapitæler lidt slidte. Lille etiket påsat nederst på ryg. Kobberstukket portræt som frontispiece. 10 kobberstukne titelvignetter, 2 genealogiske foldetabeller. Indvendig ren.‎

‎Komplet del af ""Hertugdømmene"", som har selvstændige bindbetegnelser og som ingår i Gebhardi og Christiani's større værk om Danmark og Norge ""Kongerigerne Danmarks og Norges samt Hertugdømmene Slesvig og Holsteens Historie indtil vore Tider."" Eksemplaret her indeholder også alle 5 deltitelblade til det overordnede værk. Bibl. Danica III,18.‎

‎Vergleichung der Nachrichten von Dänischen Begebenheiten, von 1182 bis 1209, welche bey Arnold von Lübeck anzutreffen sind, mit andern Schriftstellern desselben Zeitalters, und Berichtigung der dazu gehörigen Zeitrechnung. Eine Preisschrift.‎

‎Copenhagen, N.Möller u. Sohn, 1789. 4to. Uncut and unopened in later blank wrappers. 94 pp.‎

‎Vergleichung der Nachrichten von Dänischen Begebenheiten, von 1182 bis 1209, welche bey Arnold von Lübeck anzutreffen sind, mit andern Schriftstellern desselben Zeitalters, und Berichtigung der dazu gehörigen Zeitrechnung. Eine Preisschrift.‎

‎Copenhagen, N. Möller und Sohn, 1789. 4to. Uncut in blank wrappers. On good paper, fine and clean. 94 pp.‎

‎The price was proposed by the Royal Danish Academy of Science.‎

‎Venskabs= og Defensive Alliance-Tractat, Imellem Deres Kongel. Majesteter, Kongen til Danmark og Norge, ec. paa den Eene Og Kongen af Sverrig og den Svenske Crone, paa den anden Side, Undertegnet udi Stockholm, den 5te October - 24de September. Anno 1...‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Kongl. Maj. og Universit. Bogtrykkerie, (1734). 4to. Pragtfuldt originalt omslagspapir trykt i guld og med adskillige farver og mønstre á la gyldenlædertapet. (12) pp. Ren og frisk trykt på kraftigt skrivepapir. Omslagene forstærkede på bagsiden.‎

‎Originaltrykket (den danske version) af den 15-årige forsvarsalliance indgået mellen Danmark/Norge og Sverige således at Sverige kunne holde ryggen fri ved en krig mod Rusland. Danmark fik garanti for besiddelserne i Slesvig.‎

‎Kong Christian VIII's Dagbog fra Regenttiden i Norge. EfterbKongens franske Originalhaandskrift. Udgivet af Arvid Ahnfelt. Overført paa Dansk af Ch. Brøndsted.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1883. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelbladet. (8),206,(2) pp.‎

‎Kong Christian den Ottendes Regjeringshistorie.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Bing & Søn, 1852. Samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelbladet. VIII,492,(1) pp.‎

‎Lebens-Beschreibung der Konigin Christina von Schweden (...). Auss dem Frantzosischen ins Teutsche ubersetzt. - [""ONE OF THE WITTIEST AND MOST LEARNED WOMEN OF HER AGE""]‎

‎(No place, nor printer), 1677. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Small paper-label to upper part of spine. Extremities with soiling. Annotations to free back end-paper. Internally nice and clean. (2), 164, 3-113 pp. + frontispiece and 1 plate. ‎

‎Uncommon first edition of this early account of the life of Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), daughter of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf (1594-1632) “Christina (born Dec. 8, 1626, Stockholm, Swed.—died April 19, 1689, Rome [Italy]) was the queen of Sweden (1644–54) who stunned all Europe by abdicating her throne. She subsequently attempted, without success, to gain the crowns of Naples and of Poland. One of the wittiest and most learned women of her age, Christina is best remembered for her lavish sponsorship of the arts and her influence on European culture.” (Encyclopedia Britannica).‎

‎Das Indigenat=Recht, wodurch der Zugang zu Aemtern in den Königlichen Staten den eingebohrnen Unterthanen, oer denen, die ihnen gleich zu achten sind, allein vorbehalten wird. Gegeben auf dem Schlosse Christiansburg den 15. Januar. 1776.‎

‎(Kopenhagen), Publicirt den 29. Januar. 1776. 4to. Blankt papirsomslag. (12) pp., tekstklummer sat indenfor træskårne dobbeltrammer. Trykt på kraftigt blåligt skrivepapir‎

‎Det sjældne originaltryk af Indfødsretsloven i den tyske version (den danske og tyske udkom samtidigt). Loven blev udstedt af Christian VII, men var udformet afSchack Rathlau og Guldberg. Den blev udstedt uden om Statsrådet, og den havde til hensigt at stoppe for den uskik at landets embeder i urimeligt omfang blev besat af udlændinge, jvf. Struensee's tyske regimente. En betingelse skulle nu være at den pågældende var født i landet. - Bibl. Danica II:739.‎

‎Esrum Klosters Brevbog. Udg.ved O.Nielsen.‎

‎Kbhvn., 1880-81. Indbundet med orig. bogtrykte for-og bagomslag i et samtidigt hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Stempel på titelbladet. XXXIV,335 pp. rent frisk eksemplar.‎

‎Originaltrykket.‎

‎Esrum Klosters Brevbog. Udg.ved O.Nielsen.‎

‎Kbhvn., 1880-81. Solidt hshirtbd. Stempel på titelbladet. XXXIV,335 pp.‎

‎Originaltrykket.‎

‎La peinture européenne au XIXe siècle - Le Romantisme‎

‎Nouvelles Société d'Editions, Bruxelles / Librairie H. Floury, Paris, 1935. In-4, broché sous couverture rempliée, 274 pp. Introduction - Livre I. Allemagne - Livre II. : Angleterre - Livre III. France - Livre IV. : Belgique : I. Le romantisme anversois. - II. Le romantisme bruxellois. - III. Antoine Wiertz. - IV. Les coulisses du romantisme. - ...‎

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‎Nouvelles du Nord n° 7: Danemark, ‎

‎L'élan, Nouvelles du Nord n° 7, 144 pp., broché, très bon état.‎

‎Processus seu Negocium Canonizacionis B.Katerine de Vadstenis. Efter Cod. Holm. A 93.‎

‎Upps., 1942-46. 4to. XIX, 223 pp. (Saml.utg.av Svenska Fornskriftsällskapet). M.dedik.fra udg.‎

‎Norse-Gaelic Contacts in a Viking World‎

‎, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xii + 439 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579023.‎

‎Summary This multi-disciplinary volume draws on the combined expertise of specialists in the history and literature of medieval Ireland, Iceland, Norway, and Scotland to shed new light on the interplay of Norse and Gaelic literary traditions. Through four detailed case-studies, which examine the Norwegian Konungs skuggsj , the Icelandic Nj ls saga and Landn mab k, and the Gaelic text Baile Suthach Sith Emhna, the volume explores the linguistic, cultural, and political contacts that existed between Norse and Gaelic speakers in the High Middle Ages, and examines the impetus behind these texts, including oral tradition, transfer of written sources, and authorial adaption and invention. Crucially, these texts are not only examined as literary products of the thirteenth century, but also as repositories of older historical traditions, and the authors seek to explore these wider historical contexts, as well as analyse how and why historical and literary material was transmitted. The volume contains English translations of key extracts and also provides a detailed discussion of sources and methodologies to ensure that this milestone of scholarship is accessible to both students and subject-specialists. 'This is a brilliant and genuinely ground-breaking book, representing a significant step forward in literary and historical analysis of the Norse-Gaelic interface'. (Professor Ralph O'Connor, University of Aberdeen). TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents List of Illustrations Note on Orthography of Names Preface Chapter 1: Norse-Gaelic Contacts in a Viking World: Concept and Context Chapter 2: The 'Wonders of Ireland' in Konungs skuggsj : Text, Sources, Context Chapter 3: Baile Suthach S th Emhna, a?Poem to Raghnall, King of Man: Text and Context Chapter 4: The Battle of Clontarf in Icelandic Sources Chapter 5: Kjarvalr rakonungr and Gaelic Ancestry in Iceland Chapter 6: Textual Reflexes of Norse-Gaelic Contacts Works Cited Index‎

‎Entwurf eines „Staatsgrundgesetzes für die Herzogthümer Schleswig = Holstein (Arbeit der am 24sten Juli 1848 von der provisorischen Regierung Niedergesezten Commission).‎

‎Kiel, Schmers'sche Buchhandlung, 1848. 8vo. In the original blank blue wrappers. Provisional repair with tape to spine. Front-wrapper missing upper inner corner. Two stamps to half-title, title-page and verso of title-page. Upper outer corner of half-title missing, far from affecting text. Occassional brownspotting throughout. 34 pp. with a blank leaf inserted between every printed leaf (giving a total of 33 ff., including the blanks). ‎

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‎The rare first printing of the drafting of the constitution by the provisional government for the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1848 the Schleswig-Holsteiners decided to establish a provisional government and oust the Danish king. The subsequent war (1848-1851) achieved a status quo until a permanent solution between Denmark and Germany was reached in 1920. The 1848-1852 events in Schleswig-Holstein were a Danish-German confrontation. The underlying issues were complex: The kingdom of Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were component parts of the Danish Monarchy and were united in the person of the king/duke. Schleswig was a Danish fief, Holstein a member of the German Confederation. A 1665 law introduced succession through the female line in Denmark, with the survival of Salic law in the duchies held in abeyance. Schleswig had a strong Danish element in the north, Holstein was German. ""With the extinction of the male royal line in the offing, Christian VIII declared in 1846 that the 1665 law applied to Schleswig and (with some reservation) to Holstein. Protests in the duchies had not been resolved, when in the wake of the February revolution the liberals in Copenhagen took over and moved toward the annexation of Schleswig. In defiance, the estates of Schleswig and Holstein set up a provisional government on March 24. Being composed of liberals and conservatives it obtained popular and official support in Germany, and with Prussian military support gained control of most of the duchies by midsummer. But then Britain and Prussia intervened, pressuring Prussia to make a truce with Denmark (at Malmö, August 26, 1848), a truce which caused a parliamentary crisis in Frankfurt. In a short time Schleswig-Holstein had become the national issue, and by acceding to the Malmö truce the Frankfurt Assembly severely damaged its political credit.Fighting resumed in 1849 and was ended by a July truce. After losing German military support, the duchies were defeated in the 1850 campaign. The government abdicated on February 1, 1851, and the Danish authorities took over a year later. In the final settlement the powers restored the Danish monarchy with the succession in the duchies to follow that of the kingdom (Second London Protocol of May 8, 1852). In separate notes the Danish government agreed to preserve the status of Schleswig and to abstain from steps leading to its incorporation. While the agreements restored the balance of power, the relations between Danes and Germans suffered, eroding popular sentiment for the Danish monarchy. Also Schleswig became a matter of outside concern, permitting Prussian intervention in the case of Danish non-compliance."" (Ohio Univerty" Lawrence D. Steefel, Sleswig-Holstein Question).‎