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Cöllen, Sebastian: Das "Stammbuch" des Stoltzius von Stoltzenberg, in Wagner, Berit and Gannon, Corinna (Eds.): Opus magnum: Matthäus Merian d.Ä. und die Bebilderung der Alchemie, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net-ART-Books, 2024, p. 287–292. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1311.c19546
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05/08/2024
Das "Stammbuch" des Stoltzius von Stoltzenberg
During his travels through Europe from 1622 to 1628, the young physician Daniel Stoltzius von Stoltzenberg (born 1600, died after 1644) carried with him a draft version of his alchemical work Viridarium chymicum, published 1624. This version not only contained alchemical engravings and verses, but also served as a so-called Stammbuch (album amicorum, in English often “autograph album”) in which Stoltzius’s acquaintances—a palette of the then scholarly class—inscribed brief dedications and quotations. The complex manuscript thus documents both the networking and the lively search for knowledge in the early modern period.
