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Aalst (Belgium) 79n
academic (propedeutic) literature 2
acoustics 9
actants 220, 222, 226
action 2–3, 5, 8, 11, 17, 26, 44, 51–52, 54, 101–102, 122, 142, 220n, 222–223, 226, 229–230, 235n
Adam (Bible) 253–254
advice book 8, 22–48
AG Sammlung Deutscher Drucke 52
aggregative text 214
Agricola, Georg 17, 22n, 190
agriculture 2, 9, 217
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius 78, 214, 255
airship 174, 178
alchemy 1n, 10, 14, 62–63, 112, 113, 123, 138–139, 196, 213n, 215, 238
alloy 145–146
al-Maghrabi 246n
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco 137
Amerbach, Johannes 75n
anatomical woodcut 91
angel(s) 19, 29n, 154, 174, 183n, 253–254, 265
Angel Cassiel 245
Angel Gabriel 258
Angel Raphael 258
Angel Raziel 253
Annaberg 22
annotations 14, 37, 51, 57, 58, 61–65, 71, 74, 84–87, 122n, 143, 219, 267
anthropocene 36
antimony 62–64
antler 288, 290
Antonius de Columbergia 79n
Antwerp 193, 194, 202–203
apothecary 29n, 45, 121, 233, 270
apotropaic 45, 237, 242, 258
arcane knowledge 101, 124
Arcade, Etienne 128
Archimedes 174
Aristotle 109
Arnoldus de Villanova 197, 200n
aromatic recipes 249
arrows 27, 29n, 43, 186
Ars notaria 238, 242
ars volandi 170, 174
artisanal practice / practitioner 52, 57
arts 9, 14, 126–151, 196, 215
arts and crafts 129, 144
astrolabe 75, 77
astrology 2, 54, 154, 200n, 202, 238, 249
astronomy 72, 74, 110, 239n
audience 14, 33, 35, 52–54, 58, 61, 71, 142, 166, 190, 192, 202, 210, 214–215, 217
Augsburg 54, 55, 71, 142
August of Saxony, Duke 291
August the Younger, Duke of Wolfenbüttel 52, 220
aurum potabile 221, 233
authorities 25, 48, 55, 90, 91, 197, 266
authority 13, 26, 34, 74, 102, 124, 199, 223, 227, 230
author-practitioner 128, 131, 138, 140, 143, 144, 145, 151
aviation 169–191
Bacher, Andreas (physician) 305
Bad Ems (Rhineland) 278, 305
Baden-Württemberg 92
barbers 24, 57, 62
Basel 80, 87, 153–166
Basil the Great 119
Basilius Valentinus 78, 105
Beckmann, Johann 9
Bergamo 29–30
Béthune, Philippe de 128, 142
Bible 6, 170, 258, 266
Bibliothèque nationale de France 127–128
Billicanus, Theobald 118
binding (book) 71, 88, 94n, 116, 118, 128, 135, 242, 280
birds 17, 169
black magic 266
black box 65
blank pages 113, 119, 186
blood 24, 233, 240, 249, 250–252, 255, 260, 262, 295
bloodletting 24, 36
Boccaccio, Giovanni 45, 292
body juices 24
Boethius 75
Bogaerde, Anselm vanden 88
Bologna 83
Bonsignori, Giovanni 91
book auction 53
book fair 160, 166
book making, book production 20, 123n, 153–166
Book of Abramelin  255, 264
Book of Honorius 239, 241, 254, 264
book(s) of secrets 3, 78, 126 131, 139, 152–166, 214–220
book print as ‘ars secreta’ 4
book trade 47
Bordogna, Sigismondo 153
Bosch, Jacob 154
box 270–271, 273, 274, 280, 287, 288, 293, 301, 305n
Braekman, Willy L. 194, 210
breasts 201, 204, 207–208
breviary 110
British Library 253
British Empire 8
Brunschwig, Hieronymus 55, 61, 65
Brussels 194, 203
Bucharest 186
Bücherradkatalog 57n
Büchlein / Buchlein (booklet) 7, 31–32, 35, 292
Bugenhagen, Johannes 100, 118 194, 105, 274, 301
Butler, Eliza Marian 266
Butticher, Elias 303
Büttner, Frank 74–75, 79
calculations 54, 58, 74, 237
calendars 31
Cammerlander, Jakob (printer) 5n
car manual 18
Cassano (Italy) 81
casting, lifecasting 126, 131, 138 139, 141, 143, 146, 148, 240
Catholic Church 91
Ceaucescu Regime 183
Cellini, Benvenuto 241
Cennini, Cennino 144
censorship 90, 91–95, 242, 266
change of media 11–12
Chartier, Roger 158
cheap print 5n, 11, 20, 290
chemiatry 62
Chemnitz 286n, 303
chess 202
childbirth 297
children 100–101, 183, 204, 279, 299, 300
cholera 47
christian piety 169
Cicero 118, 119
cinema 190
Claudin, Anatole 78
clay 148, 258, 289
Cleopatra 162
Clus in Bad Gandersheim (Lower Saxony) 109
Coburg 61, 62
codex 109, 111, 123, 240
cognitive gap 19, 235
collected volumes 52
Colmar 157, 166
colour production 9, 82
coloured (markings) 61, 249
comet 265
commerce of secrets 126–151
Commerkercken (fictional town) 199–200
communication 19, 33n, 53, 63, 70, 122–123, 197, 214, 223, 226, 227–229, 230, 234, 265
compilation 10, 16, 45, 105, 108n, 109, 157, 266n, 280–295
composite manuscript 105, 108n, 109, 123
computational analysis 128, 139
concoction 300
consumer culture 181
conventions 192, 197, 199, 202–203, 208–210
cookery books 111–112, 210
cooking recipes 213
copyright 188
Cornelius Nepos 119
correspondence, letters 16, 130, 154, 156, 159, 163, 165–166, 230, 268, 278n
Corsica 300
Cortese, Isabella 214–215, 216, 224, 231
costs 38, 47, 271, 308
cover 4n, 65, 66, 70, 85, 116, 242, 244, 246, 274
COVID-19 (virus) 1, 13, 24–25, 27–28, 30, 36, 43n
craft knowledge 54
craft practices 126–151
craft secrets 130
craftsmen 3, 5, 6, 31, 196, 271
Cunningham, Andrew 74, 84, 86
cure 24, 26, 199, 274, 278, 305
curiosity 4, 19, 201, 210, 220–221
cutaway 179, 183, 185
Dackerman, Susan 82
Daedalus 174
David, Joannes 173, 190
decoration 44, 81, 124
Della Porta, Giambattista / Giovan Battista 19, 162, 214, 217–219
Delumeau, Jean 34
demons 19, 29n, 238, 239, 241, 242, 252, 254, 258, 265
device 1, 6, 74, 95, 237
diagram, diagrammatic 16, 17, 38, 40, 74–75, 165
dietary 24, 33n, 35, 44, 303, 305
digital edition 135, 137, 145–146, 148
digital humanities 11, 126, 132, 139
digital medium 15, 128, 132–135, 151
disclaimer 201
discourse colonies 137
disease 13, 22–46, 55, 61, 200n, 222, 265, 268–307
distillation 9, 14, 21, 55–70, 194, 222, 233
distilling book 55–70
Dixhoorn, Arjan van 194, 196
Doesborch, Jan van 202, 203
domestic issues 193
Döpler, Jakob 100–101
dosage 19, 63, 230, 235, 248, 286
duration 220n, 222, 233
Dürer, Albrecht 82, 83
Dutch 18, 82, 192–210
dyes / dyeing 5, 9, 129, 214
Eamon, William 5, 10, 156, 196, 213
Eckert, Allison 28
Edinburgh 78
Egenolff, Christian (printer) 5n
Egypt 238
Emblematic Age 182, 190
emergency 26, 278, 284, 297
encoding 133, 137, 146, 147, 151
encyclopaedia, encyclopedic 4, 11, 14, 20, 21, 84, 95, 137, 154, 203, 214, 220, 236, 213–236, 242
endpaper 14, 63–65, 113, 116
enemas 284–288
engineer(ing) 22, 75, 174
engraver 4, 5
entertainment 4, 19, 21, 192, 194, 197, 203, 208
epidemics 23, 27, 37, 45–48, 55, 290, 291
Erasmus of Rotterdam 82, 83, 118
Erfurt 45
experiments 4n, 66, 70, 77, 131, 135, 143, 1787, 217, 236, 240
expert / specialist knowledge 1, 56, 125
expurgation 89–94
failures 230
fairy tale 221
faith 2, 44, 169, 191
Faustian 239, 246, 265
female court (Frauenzimmer) 295
Ferguson Collection 1n, 8, 14
Ferguson, John 7–10, 77–78, 80, 81, 95, 213n, 215n
Ferrières, Henri de 265
festive decorations 177
field measurements 54
Fisher, Walkden 180
Flayder, Friedrich Hermann 174
Fleck, Ludwik 29
flight (aircraft) 169–171
flight (escape) 24, 45
florilegium 214
flowchart 223
flying 169–191
flyleaf 118
Folz, Hans 40
food 1, 24, 36, 45, 152, 161, 290, 297
format (of the book) 6, 7n, 8, 31, 37, 55, 56, 84, 99, 104, 110, 124n, 186, 199, 209, 210
foreseeing 239
Forshaw, Peter 256
Foucault, Michel 95n
Fracastoro, Girolamo 24
fragmented text 132, 137, 143
fragrances 19, 237, 241, 248, 256, 258, 264
fragrant waters 111
France 15, 17, 34, 79, 126, 128, 265
Frankfurt a.M. 157, 160, 163, 166
Freiberg (Ore Mountains) 23–25
Freiburg 7, 72, 77, 79, 81, 83, 88, 92
French 126–151, 154, 165, 170, 193n, 241, 256
Friedell, Egon 47
Gaesdonck (Germany) 95
Gagerin, Yuri 183
Galen (physician) 24, 25, 162
gardening 9
Garzoni, Tomaso 214, 220
Geber / Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (alchemist) 78, 105, 108
gender 3n, 208
genitalia 89–95
geometry 72, 74, 75, 82
Gerlachin, Katharina (printer) 186
German, Germany 5, 7–9, 13, 22–25, 31, 45, 33–34, 37, 51–71, 79, 88, 92, 104–105, 110, 113, 116, 120, 153, 170, 183, 214, 222, 268–307
gestures 147, 150
Giesecke, Michael 5n, 70, 121n
Giessen (Hesse) 54, 56, 58, 67
Glasgow 1n, 3, 14, 20n, 77–80, 84–85, 87–88, 91, 94
glossary 132, 144
Goeree, Willem 82
Graf, Alban 75n
Granito (or Granitus), Cosimo 80, 81
Greek 238, 242, 253, 2n, 43n, 45, 77, 113, 118
Greimas, Algirdas Julien 213, 222n, 223, 225n
grief and joy 36
grimoires 19, 21, 237–268
Grüninger, Johannes 73, 80, 87, 93, 94
Grynæus, Simon 157
Guericke, Otto von 178
gynecology 276, 299
Haas, Conrad 183, 186–189
Hamburg 279
handwriting 14, 47, 57n, 87, 129, 130, 133
handbook 2, 11, 14, 73
hand-colouring 81, 83
hands-on 126, 128, 132, 146–148, 151
Happel, Eberhard Werner 178
Hassett, Michael 197
healing spring 7
health 43, 57, 199, 201, 202, 210, 223, 285
heart water 283
heaven 17, 29, 169, 170, 177, 253, 254
Hebrew 77, 119, 262
Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess 278, 279–280
Hedwig / Jadwiga, Electress of Brandenburg 278, 288
Heidelberg 177
Hellenistic 238
Henricpetri, Sebastian (printer) 73, 80
Henry the Pious, Duke of Saxony 25n
herbals 196, 199
hero 222, 233
Herzog August Library 87, 51–53, 71, 103
Higgins, Dan 28
Hippocrates 23, 24, 25
hodgepodge 18, 210, 215
horn 253, 288, 289
household 9, 112, 138, 139, 150, 153
household book 110, 123
how-to knowledge 1–4, 11
humors 24
humour studies 200
hygiene 33, 292
hyper-text 190
Iamblichus 260
iconic guides 181
illness 36, 43, 154, 266, 274, 280, 282, 286, 299, 300
imperative (grammar) 3, 14, 19, 51, 52, 136, 220n, 226
implementation 12, 18, 20, 26, 44–46, 174, 181, 200, 221, 229
impropriety 199–201, 202, 209
improvisation 12, 18, 44
Imsser, Philipp 31–32
incense, frankincense 19, 237–267
incunabula 12, 34, 61
index 5, 13, 31, 38, 66, 87–88, 91, 94, 145, 146, 163, 215
indian knowledge 246
industrialisation 8, 169
information design 197
Ingolstadt (Bavaria) 72
initial 42, 44, 63, 198
inscription 57, 63, 71, 80, 81, 92, 116, 122, 124, 240, 301
instructions 1, 2, 4n, 5, 7, 10–12, 15, 17–19, 20, 26, 33, 35, 48, 54–55, 57, 63, 67, 70, 77, 100, 112, 126, 127, 129, 131, 135, 142, 147–149, 152, 166, 169, 174, 192–193, 209, 222, 234, 235, 240, 262, 271, 274, 276, 284, 289, 296, 303
intermediality 21, 40–44, 169
invention 9, 15, 53, 170, 178
invocation 19, 55, 240–241, 247, 261
Islam, Islamic(ate) 238, 245, 246, 260n
Italy 27, 34, 79, 92, 194, 215
Jacob’s staff 75, 77
jars 274, 284n, 288, 291, 292, 294, 301
jest 197, 199, 201
Jesuits 170, 182, 183, 191
jews 25, 170
jinn 245
Joachim II., Elector of Brandenburg 288
jokes 129, 135, 209–210
joke speech 177
Jonson, Ben 45
journeys 6, 17, 54, 278
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 278, 279, 280, 290
Jupiter 247n, 249, 262, 265
Keller, Katharina 162
Kittler, Friedrich 120, 121
Klebs, Arnold C. 34
Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian 217n
know-how 2, 14, 20, 21, 169, 190, 225, 227, 236
Koch, Robert 25n, 44
Kostelnick, Charles 197
Kröner, Michael (publisher) 290
Kunst- und Wunderbücher 8, 214, 222, 228, 232
Kunstbuch, Kunstbüchlein 5, 7, 51, 126, 169, 183, 186–188, 196n
Küstrin 278
Kusukawa, Sachiko 74, 84
La Tourrette, Alexandre de 113, 115
laboratory 63, 65–67, 71, 126, 128, 132, 144, 146, 147, 150, 151, 230
Landau, David 90
Landucci, Luca 248
Lani di Terzi, Francesco 174–175
Latin 3, 5, 53, 56, 61, 64, 72, 74, 99, 104, 110, 118, 129, 136, 149, 153, 160, 161, 174, 194, 215, 217, 238, 239, 290
Lavater, Hans Conrad 7
lay knowledge 53
lay people 1, 33n, 47
leather binding 186
Leipzig 9, 20, 22, 240, 268, 276, 301
Leonardo da Vinci 169, 170
Leong, Elaine 127
letter (alphabetic) 3, 17, 42, 81, 99, 113, 174, 233, 255
letter indices 174, 190
Libavius, Andreas 56, 66, 67, 70, 113
liberal arts 14, 72, 74, 87–88
library 1, 3, 14, 27, 31, 52, 65, 66, 77, 83, 109, 128, 174, 253, 256, 280, 306
Liesvelt, Jacob van 193, 194
Lindauer, Georg 83, 84
linguistics 145, 213
Lipsius, Justus 119
literacy 54, 58, 148
literature of knowledge and use 101–103, 120
liturgy 124, 238, 255
London 45, 78, 256
Luneburg (Lower Saxony) 278
Luther, Martin 2, 45
Luxembourg 43
MacGregor Mathers 265
machine 21, 127, 170, 174
Machus, Stephanus 80
Macron, Emmanuel 43n
Magdeburg 45, 178
magic, magical 8n, 9, 10, 19, 21, 27, 44, 100, 101, 174, 196, 222, 237–267
magician 19, 237–267
magnetism 9
Maier, Michael 10n
Making and Knowing Project 15, 126–151
making visible 170
Malderus, bishop of Antwerp 194
Manchester 256–257, 267
manipulation 196, 209, 227, 236
manuscript 1n, 5, 12, 15, 20, 29, 34, 35, 38, 57, 61, 88, 99–125, 126–151, 153, 156, 158–159, 183, 186–190, 237–267, 306
manuscript discovery 183
Marcus, Hannah 92
Margarete von Münsterberg 278, 305
margin(alia) 13, 14, 38, 51, 58, 61, 63, 74, 77, 94n, 105, 115, 128, 131, 134, 135, 143, 220, 232, 242, 287
Margócsy, Daniel 84, 85, 91, 92
Mars 247, 248n, 249, 250, 262, 265
Marschalk, Nikolaus 45–46
Marstaller, Gervasius 290, 291, 303–306
masks 27
material literacy 148
materiality 13–15, 115, 128, 129, 134, 135, 242, 270–271
McKenzie, Donald F. 159
mechanics 169–191
media 11, 12, 14–15, 25, 26, 37–38, 52, 101–103, 120, 121, 123
media revolution 53
mediality 101
medical advice 22–48, 31, 268–307
medical knowledge 37, 22–48, 268–307
medical recipes 22–48, 129, 268–307
medications 274, 278, 282
medicinal vessels 273–276
medicine chest 274–305
medieval 38, 47, 53, 62, 121n, 123, 237, 239, 241–242, 252, 255, 258, 266, 296
medium 1, 4, 6, 14, 15, 20, 38, 48, 70, 99, 100, 104, 105, 110, 113, 121–123, 128, 132, 133–135, 151, 247, 266
Melanchthon, Philipp 118
menstruation 276, 296, 297, 299
merrymaking 204
metallurgy, metalwork 5, 9, 17, 21, 112, 113, 126, 138, 148, 154, 214
metaphor 43, 63 183
Metlinger, Bartholomäus 299
metridate (remedy) 288
Meyer, Kathleen 2
miasma 25, 42, 48, 292
micro-macrocosm analogy 217
Middle Ages 6n, 15, 43, 47, 100, 105, 110, 121, 123, 155, 190, 214, 233, 237, 265
midwives 57, 62, 297
Milan 288
mining 22, 112
Minkmar, Nils 26
mirror 138, 170, 202
miscellaneous 105, 109, 112, 123, 127, 128, 130, 133, 135, 137, 145
miscellaneous manuscript 105, 108
miscellanies 123, 238
mock recipe 194, 199, 200, 201
mockery 197, 199, 210
Montgolfier Brothers 178
moon 183, 243, 248, 249, 251, 262, 263
Morris, Marcus 180
Moscherosch, Johann Michael 100
Moses 253, 254
Munich 78, 79, 83, 240
myrrh 24, 244, 249, 250, 251, 260, 289
Nadal, Jerome 170
Naples 19, 81
narrative 19, 101, 131, 136, 170, 204, 217, 220, 221, 223, 227, 229
NASA 183, 185
natural magic / magia naturalis 9, 215, 217–218, 220, 228, 232
necromancy 239
Neefe, Caspar 269, 271, 273, 274, 276, 279, 280, 282, 283, 284, 288, 289, 291, 292, 294, 299, 300–301, 303
Neefe, Johannes 291, 293, 294, 296, 297
Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von 78
network 4, 16, 121, 152–166
Neudörffer, Hans 111
New York 126
non-verbal 233
Noot, Thomas van der 194, 203
North Rhine Westphalia 95
northern Europe 74, 92
notes 15, 37, 58, 61, 66, 71, 122, 129, 130, 131, 234
nudity 91, 206
numeracy 58
Nuremberg 61, 93, 110, 111, 186, 288, 292
Nützlich Buchlin (useful booklet) 7, 31
occult literature 19, 241
ointment 62, 63, 118, 215, 273, 279, 292, 297, 305
olfactory (studies) 19, 237, 242, 265
optics 9, 138, 217
orality 14, 47
Ovid 91, 94
ownership (of books) 66, 70, 71, 79–84, 118
pediatrics 276, 299–301
pamphlets 31, 47, 55, 303
pandemic 23, 33, 290
Pantzar, Mika 158
paper 6, 13, 15, 20, 36–37, 47, 92, 99, 104, 109, 111, 113, 128, 135, 190, 225, 233, 238, 305
Papyri Graecae Magicae 242
Paracelsus 43n, 61, 63, 162, 214, 260
paratextual 5
Paris 33, 78, 80, 133, 213
parody 113, 124, 199
Parshall, Peter 90
Passau 92
Pasteur, Louis 44
Pellitius, Justus 278
performative 12, 19, 20, 146, 148, 155, 234, 235
performative reconstruction 20
perfume 237–267
Perna, Pietro 157, 165, 166
pewter vessels 273, 274, 276, 282
pharmacy 20, 61, 62, 270, 271, 273, 274, 276, 280, 282, 284, 286, 294, 300, 301, 303, 305
Philip VI., King of France 33
Philip, Landgrave of Hessia 54
physician 10, 33, 20, 22, 24, 31, 38, 48, 56, 62, 80, 162, 166, 268, 278, 279, 282, 286, 287, 291, 292, 303–306
Picatrix 238, 241, 246–252, 254, 255, 258, 261, 262, 264
pictograms 33, 40
Piemontese, Alessio 153, 160, 214, 215n
piety literature 2
pigments 83, 129
pills 273, 291, 299, 303
piracy 188
Pisa 83
plague (tracts) 12, 13, 21, 22–46
plague prophylaxis 24, 33, 37, 290–295
plane 178, 179, 191
planet 183, 204, 247–250, 258, 260, 261
planetary god 247, 252
pocket size 20, 38, 241
Poland 79, 295, 301
Pomata, Gianna 155
Popp, Johann 61, 62, 64, 71
popular science 169, 196, 199
pornography 91
potion 276, 287, 289, 294, 295, 303, 305
powder 45, 100, 114, 145, 225, 251, 260, 262, 279, 283, 286, 289, 291, 294, 296–298, 299, 300, 303, 305
practical knowledge 7, 137, 150, 210, 233
practical use 199, 209, 280
pragmatics 101, 122
praxeological 44, 51, 214, 220, 223, 229, 235
prayers 149, 150, 239, 247, 256n, 215
prescription 20, 55, 194, 196, 267
prestige 223
Principe, Lawrence 146
printing press 47–48
procedural (knowledge) 11, 230, 236
Professors of Secrets 214
prognosis 33
propositional knowledge 3
Propp, Vladimir J. 222
provenance 78–84, 88, 92, 95, 199
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus 78
Pseudo-Salomon 259, 263
Ptolemy 75
pulvis contra epilepsiam 300
putti 29
Ramus, Petrus 165
rational thinking 21
Rautenberg, Ursula 36
readership 6, 52, 61, 95, 130, 202, 210, 215
Rechen-Büchlein (arithmetic booklet) 7
recipe books 10, 16, 37, 51, 121, 123, 124, 152–166, 193, 296
recipe collection 15, 100n, 193, 109, 123
recipe literature 100n, 101, 213
reconstruction 128, 132, 144, 146–150
re-enactement 146, 147, 209n
Reformation 47, 54, 91, 118
Reisch, Gregor 14, 72, 77, 79, 80, 81, 84
remedies 24, 34, 36, 44, 47, 57, 63–64, 66, 70, 100, 101, 121, 143, 210, 229, 247, 270, 280, 282, 285, 288, 297, 300, 302
Rhazes (ar-Rāzī) 109
rhyming verse 33
Richard, Jon 179, 183
Ripa, Caesare 170–171
rituals 20, 238–241, 247, 254, 264
rockets 179, 182, 183, 186
Romania 183
Rome 83, 288
Romoli, Vincenzio 241n
Rosenthal, Jacques and Ludwig 78
Rösslin, Eucharius 297
Royal Society 136, 174
Rülein von Calw, Ulrich 22–25
rules 13, 18, 33, 54, 58, 230, 235, 291
rules of conduct 13, 23
Ruscelli, Girolamo 215n
Russell, Robert 183
Ryle, Gilbert 11n, 21
Saint Sebastian 36
sand 131, 136, 145, 149
Saphirus, Magister 109
satire 177
Saturn 248–250, 264–265
Scala, Petrus 80
scent, smells 237–267
Schmidlap, Johannes 186, 188, 190
Schöningen (Lower Saxony) 268–270, 278, 279, 287, 303, 305
Schöntal (Württemberg) 83–84
Schott, Johannes 73, 75, 81, 88, 93–94
Scotus, Michael 203
scribe 130, 136, 140, 267, 274, 280
scriptorium 115
Secretenliteratur 8
semantic markup 133, 139, 141, 146
sensuality 204
Sercambi, Giovanni 29
sheet of paper 20, 99, 121
ship 174, 178, 191
workshop 1, 20, 22, 115, 130–131, 136, 143, 150–151, 185, 230
Shove, Elizabeth 158
Sibiu (Hermannstadt) 183, 186
Sibum, Heinz Otto 146, 147
Sienna 83
signatures 217
Silk Road 246
Silvaticus, Matthaeus (botanist, physician) 288
similarities (macro- and microstructural) 220
sketches 58, 70
Skinner, Stephen 256
sky 19, 43, 174, 262
small books 31–32
Smith, Pamela H. 3
soap 1, 152, 153, 154 160, 215, 225
Sophia, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneberg 268–397
sorcerer 19, 241
Soviet Union 183
space capsule 186
space race 183
Spain 79, 238
spell books 19, 237–267
spirit 210, 233, 238–267
spiritual 17, 19, 103, 109 110, 123, 149, 174, 241
Stadion, Christoph von, Bischof 35
Steinhöwel, Heinrich 34–38, 42, 44–45, 292
Stöckel, Matthes (printer in Dresden) 291
stones 44, 140, 154, 196, 232, 237, 252, 262, 280, 284, 289, 303, 305
Strasbourg 44, 55, 61, 73, 81, 83, 85, 88, 157
Sudhoff, Karl 34
sun 170, 225, 249, 251
surveying 54, 56–58, 67, 70–71, 75
symbols 63
tacit knowledge 21, 128
talisman 260–261
Taurellus, Nicolaus 162
technical drawing 16, 17, 40
technical instructional book 5, 53, 56
technical instructions 126, 209
technical knowledge 54, 57, 71
technology 9, 10, 54, 169, 178, 181, 183, 186
Telle, Joachim 62
Terence (poet) 129
text and image 16–18, 169, 178, 190, 204, 210
textbook 21, 45, 53, 56, 80, 83, 86
texts of action 15, 146–151
therapeutic bath 278
therapies 33
Thomas, Keith 27
timekeeping 149
title page 6, 31, 38, 54, 58, 66, 163, 193n, 194–195, 201–202, 215, 218
Tobias (Angel) 258
Todericu, Doto 183
tool 14, 19, 55, 75, 77, 125–151, 198, 233, 238, 240–241
Toro, Tom 27n
torture 101
Toulouse 126, 129, 136, 142
Toxites, Michael 7
traces of use 12, 13–14, 51–71, 122, 220
tracts for action 3, 8
translation 5, 15, 56, 74, 126, 132, 143–146, 151, 153, 159, 162n, 194n, 203, 217, 237, 265
transmission of knowledge 4, 6, 115, 220
travel- and field pharmacy 20, 271, 273–280, 284
treatment 56–57, 61n, 87, 154, 271, 274, 278–279, 284, 289, 299, 301
trial and error 30, 131, 143, 151, 153
tricks 193–194, 209
Trost, Johann Caspar 58
truth 230
Tübingen 174
Ulm 13n, 34–35, 292
Ulsted, Philipp 65, 70
underlinings 61
United States / USA 3n, 22n, 183
Universal Short Title Catalogue 2
urinary stones 305–306
urine 24, 94, 248–249, 250, 252, 295
uterus 280, 295–296
vaccines 26
vacuum buoyancy 178
vademecum 6
value-object 223, 229, 230, 233, 236
Venice 19, 44, 93, 153, 288
Venus 204, 206, 247, 249, 251, 262
vernacular 3, 6, 34, 35, 37, 52–53, 55, 57, 70, 215, 235n
vernacular science, – knowledge 127, 196
verse 33, 201
Vesalius, Andreas 92, 160
vessels 20, 221–222, 230, 233, 235, 271n, 273–276
Vignius, Johannes 80
Visorius, Johannes (Le Voyer, Jean) 80
visual 12, 16–18, 38, 67, 70, 130, 170, 174, 183, 191–192, 202, 210, 233–234, 242, 249
visual translation 12, 40–44
Vogtherr, Bartholomäus 54–55
Vorsterman, Willem 193, 203
water 47, 55, 111, 145, 148, 149, 162, 174, 178, 215, 221, 225, 233, 235, 300
Watson, Matt 158
Watzlawick, Paul 2
Wecker, Anna 159, 162
Wecker, Johann Jacob 16, 152–166
wedding 278
Weil am Rhein 38
Wellcome Library 256, 262
Wilhelm IV of Hesse, Landgrave 278
Wilkins, John 174
Wolfenbüttel 1, 27, 31, 37, 51, 57, 64, 66, 70, 103, 109, 113, 115, 220, 268, 270, 278, 280, 290, 305
women 3, 37, 57, 127, 159n, 225, 227, 278, 284, 295–299
wonders, marvels (of nature) 217, 220, 247
Wood, Leslie Aswell 180
woodcut 18, 58, 61, 67, 70, 74–75, 81, 89, 91, 93–95, 193, 201–210
worm infestation 299–300
youtube video 1, 234
Zainer, Günther (printer ) 299
Zainer, Johann 34, 35, 42, 292
zodiac man 14, 89, 90, 93
Zollern and Waldburg, Franz Wolfgang, Duke of 72
Zosimos 244
Zwinger, Theodor 157, 160, 163, 165

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Tracts of Action

Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books

Series:  Library of the Written Word, Volume: 127 and  Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 127
Cover Tracts of Action
E-Book ISBN:
9789004683389
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
02 May 2024
  • Subjects
    • Book History and Cartography
      • History of the Book
    • History
      • Early Modern History
    • Literature and Cultural Studies
      • General
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: How-to Books – the Birth and Development of an Understudied Genre
Chapter 1 Can There Ever Be Clueless Advice Books? Remarks on Plague Tracts
Part 1 Materiality and Traces of Use
Chapter 2 ‘Take’, ‘Do’, ‘Check’: Readers and Uses of Early Modern How-to Books in the Collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek
Chapter 3 Who Owned the Margarita Philosophica and How Was It Read?
Part 2 Entanglements of Jotted, Printed and Digital Steps
Chapter 4 Text – Medium – Recording System: Recipes in Books
Chapter 5 A Commerce of Secrets: Digital and Performative Approaches to an Early Modern How-to Manuscript at the Making and Knowing Project
Chapter 6 Compilation Networks: Making Early Modern Books of Secrets
Part 3 Text and Image Simultaneity
Chapter 7 How to Fly? Some Thoughts on a Windy Skill
Chapter 8 Playing with Recipe Conventions in Den sack der consten
Part 4 Prescription and Improvisation
Chapter 9 ‘That’s How You Do It!’ or Better not? Early Modern Recipes and Their Readers
Chapter 10 Smelling Good While Conjuring the Spirits
Chapter 11 The Duchess’s Medicine Chest: Prescriptions and Medicines for Sophia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522–1575)
Back Matter
Index

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