History of engineering & technology

Revised by: Böhlendorf-Arslan, Beate

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst. Bestandskataloge

Band 3: Spätantike, byzantinische und postbyzantinische Keramik

The Museum of Byzantine Art in the Bode Museum in Berlin is in the possession of over 1300 Byzantine clay vessels, and others made in the Byzantine tradition, dating from the 4th...

Thieme, Cristina

Das Tafelbild aus der Kathedrale von Trogir

Kunsttechnologische Studien zur Tafelmalerei Dalmatiens des 13. Jahrhunderts

The panel of Trogir was created as a retabel for the high altar in the cathedral of the small Dalmatian town of Trogir at the Adriatic sea. It is considered a unique amalgation of...

Saurma-Jeltsch, Lieselotte

Spätformen mittelalterlicher Buchherstellung

Bilderhandschriften aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers in Hagenau

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Im Mittelpunkt steht eine Gruppe von Handschriften, die in der Werkstatt des Schreibers und Unternehmers Diebold...

Editor: Leng, Rainer

Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen

Eine kriegstechnische Bilderhandschrift im cgm 600 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München

The "Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen" contains an illustrated manuscript of a gunmaster from the beginning of the 15th century. Some...

Einführung, lateinische Texte, Beschreibung und technischer Kommentar von Gustina Scaglia

Mariano Taccola – De Machinis

Faksimile des Codex Latinus Monacensis 28800, Teil II. in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München

Writing about engineering went through one of its decisive stages, on the way from the ancient treatise to the modern textbook, during the 15th century. Mariano Taccola of Siena...

Prager, David

Philo of Byzantium. Pneumatica

The first Treatise on Experimental Phyics: Western Vesion and Eastern Version. Facsimile and Transcript of the Latin Manuscript, Codex Latinus Monacensis 534, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

Philo, from the Greek colony of Byzantium, was active in Alexandria and Rhodos about 200 BC. He is famous as one of the earliest teachers of military engineering, and is known to...

Hall, Bert S.

The technological illustration of the so-called “Anonymous of the Hussite Wars”

Codex Latinus Monacensis 197,1

The „Manuscript of the Hussite Wars’ Engineer“ is frequently cited, but never studied in full. It is a compendium of drawings ans descriptions concerning military devices,...