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

Band 3: Spätantike, byzantinische und postbyzantinische Keramik

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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 to the 16th century. They have mostly been …

Das Tafelbild aus der Kathedrale von Trogir

Kunsttechnologische Studien zur Tafelmalerei Dalmatiens des 13. Jahrhunderts

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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 the cultures and arts of East …

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 Lauber von 1420 bis 1474 entstanden. Das Programm umfasst bekannte Werke wie Parzival oder Tristan sowie erbauliche und unterweisende Texte. Berühmt sind diese Codices …

Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen

Eine kriegstechnische Bilderhandschrift im cgm 600 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München

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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 extracts on working procedures deal with the production and purification of saltpeter, sulphur and …

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

Codex Latinus Monacensis 197,1

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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, various construction machines and mills. It is usually thought to depicz the state of …

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

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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 have written technical and scientific works, including one …

Mariano Taccola – De Machinis

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

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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 is a key figure in this development, and his „De Machinis“ …