Ayn liblichs piechel

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Author's coat of arms ( Ayn liblichs piechel , page 130)

Ayn liblichs piechel ( A lovely little book ; Eisenbibliothek , Mss 38) refers to a test book thatwas handwritten by Wok Pniowsky von Eulenberg after 1526.

history

Wok IV. Pniowsky von Eulenberg († after 1531; Vok Pňovský ze Sovince in Czech ) was a chief judge (1518–1525), tester and mining entrepreneur in North Moravia . Near the Eulenburg , in the area around Německá Ruda (German Eisenberg) , he had iron ore , gold and silver dug in the 1520s .

On January 20, 1526 (Anno domini 1526 on the day of Fabiany vn (d) Sebastiany) Pniowsky began to write down the manual, which represents " Methods for the analysis and further processing of various ores and metals". In 1881 Josef Zukal made a first description. He judges: “It is without a doubt Wok's original manuscript and provides an interesting insight into the current state of metallurgy . The attached index comes from another hand from a much later period; this fact and the heavy wear and tear show that the book has been used for a long time ”.

Ayn liblichs piechel is one of the early tasting books. Drawings are missing, the author's motivation remains unknown. Heinrich Steiner printed the Künstbüchlin in Augsburg in 1535 and the Probier Biechlin in 1546 - both without naming an author. Vannoccio Biringuccio is regarded as the founder of metallurgy , whose standard work De la Pirotechnia was printed posthumously in Venice in 1540. De re metallica by Georgius Agricola was published in Latin in 1556 and a year later in German. Lazarus Ercker von Schreckenfels , a Bohemian tester, had in 1573/74 the description of all fornemist Mineral Ertzt, and mining types, such as the same, and each specialty, nature and properties, on all Metals tried ... in five books (“ Large Tasting Book ”) at Georg Schwartz in Prague, while his“ Small Tasting Book ”from 1556 was never printed.

As the manuscript in the Opava (Opava) high school library came from is unknown. Zukal found it in the city's museum library in 1881. The historian Frantisek Hruby mentions the book in an essay from 1924. Since then it has been considered lost. In April 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War, a large part of the museum's collections was destroyed by arson. Along with the almost 46,000 volumes in the library, the incoming and outgoing journals were also burned. Only a few of the manuscripts and incunabula could be saved and are now in the successor institution Knihovna Slezského zemského muzea (Library of the Silesian State Museum). Ladislav Hosâk still suspected the destruction by the devastating fire in 1959.

The manuscript was acquired by the iron library of Georg Fischer AG in a New York antiquarian bookshop in 1955 . The Prague metallurgist and technical historian Ivo Krulis (1893–1973), who volunteered at the Národní technické muzeum v Praze (NTM, National Technical Museum Prague), was able to see Ayn liblichs piechel in 1966 at the Iron Library and took notes. The following year he published a reference to the manuscript in the metallurgical journal Hutnické listy ( Eisenhütten-Letters ). Although Krulis correctly identified the family as Sovinec (Eulenberg) , he transcribed the author's name as Purovsky . So his find went unnoticed by book historians. A desired microfilming was not made in 1968 due to the high costs.

Ayn liblichs piechel has been available in digital form since 2016 .

description

The manuscript has 420 pages with the dimensions 17 × 11 centimeters. Writing material is paper . The only writer is Pniowsky, who introduces himself: Anno domini 1526 on the day fabiany vn [d] Sebastiany ayn liblichs piechel started [n] by mych wocken pniowsky from aylem-berk obristem Sudy des margrafftum yn marhern […] . The author writes in German.

The first part of the manuscript is divided into 40 numbered chapters and ends with a colored drawing of the coat of arms of the Pniowsky von Eulenberg on page 130. The sections of the second part (from page 133) are not numbered, but are sometimes introduced with "Item".

Connected are 24 additional pages, which contain a more recent, 16-page table of contents (pp. 429–444). It probably dates from the 17th century and offers short summaries of the individual chapters. The manuscript has a simple black leather binding. The book closures have fallen off.

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literature

  • Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is being digitized. A search for traces of the Probierbuch manuscript of Wok Pniowsky von Eulenberg (1526), ​​which was believed to be lost . In: Ferrum . News from the iron library . Volume 90 (2018), pp. 96-107 (digitized version ; PDF, 10.6 MB).
  • Josef Zukal: From the Troppau museum library. Second division . In: Annual report of the Staats-Ober-Realschule in Troppau for the school year 1880–81 . Troppau 1881, pp. 1-36.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ member of the gentry's estate with chairmanship of land law; see. Bohemian State Offices .
  2. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. (After Frantisek Hruby) p. 100.
  3. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. P. 99.
  4. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. P. 97f.
  5. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. P. 100.
  6. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. P. 98.
  7. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. P. 102.
  8. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. Pp. 102-105.
  9. ↑ To read: Anno domini 1526 on Fabian's and Sebastian's Day “A lovely little book” started by me Wok Pniowsky von Eulenberg, Oberster Sudy (from Czech Soudce = judge) of the Margrave in Moravia… .
  10. ↑ Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized. P. 97.