#Johann Siebmachers

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Wappenbuch

Johann Siebmachers, Herausgegeben von Horst Appuhn

Die bibliophilen Taschenbücher No.538

Harenberg Verlag, Dortmund 1988, two volumes, 544 pages, ISBN  9783883795386

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Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms from 1605 in 2 volumes

Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605 bildet nicht weniger als 3471 Wappen deutscher Länder , Städte und Familien ab. Dieser Nachdruck ist zum ersten Mal vollständing in Farbe hergestellt worden.

Libro di stemmi araldici di Johann Siebmachers del 1605 con 3471 stemmi di paesi, città e famiglie. Questi stemmi vengono per la prima volta pubblicati a colori

09/12/20

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Hans Siebmacher "Emblematic unicorn illustration" 1590-95 (Presentation copy of THE FIRST BOTANICAL EMBLEM BOOK)

Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher also: Hans Sibmacher and Syber (c. 1561-1611) German crests painter, engraver, etcher and publisher.

Sold at Christie's

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Alchemy: Negative Transformation--the Nihilixir

I finally found the John Donne poem that describes his despair and descent to nothingness when his love dies.  Here’s the great Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day. 

Love’s alchemy had once transformed him to “Sun”--to ”a quintessence even from nothingness.”   A normal, positive transformation.

But now he has been transformed in reverse. a negative transformation.

For I am every dead thing...

He ruined me, and I am rebegot

Of absence, darkness, death, things which are not....

I, by love’s limbecke, am the grave

Of all, that’s nothing.

(”Limbecke” is another word for the alchemical vessel, the alembic.)

The reverse of the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir, is the Nihilixir.  I just learned this word today; its source is Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher, The Sophic Hydrolith (1619).  Cited in Charles Nicholl, The Chemical Theatre (1980).

Probably the best known negative transformation in fantasy literature is Frankenstein’s Monster.  Ser Gregor Clegane is clearly in that tradition as well.  Cersei Lannister in the books fits too.

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Siebmachers Wappenbücher (Neuherausgabe 1854-1967)

Siebmachers Wappenbücher (Neuherausgabe 1854-1967)

Der Adel des Herzogthums Braunschweig

Der originale Siebmacher erschien erstmals 1605. Der erste Herausgeber Johann Sibmacher (* um 1561 in Nürnberg; † 23. März 1611 ebenda) war Wappenmaler, Kupferstecher, Radierer und Verleger gab nur das “Newe Wappenbuch” heraus, das in zwei Bänden in den Jahren 1605 (264 Tafeln) bzw. 1609 (164 Tafeln). Bis 1696 gab es dann mehrere Ausgaben unter verschiedenen…

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WHEN IS MORE OF THE SAME NOT MORE OF THE SAME?

WHEN IS MORE OF THE SAME NOT MORE OF THE SAME?

Another post that only a stitching history nerd will love.

The last post explored some differences between modelbooks that looked like they featured the same patterns, but in fact were not printed from the same plate.  This one looks at one of the most widely reprinted and well known modelbook authors – Johann Siebmacher, and three of his works, all available in on-line editions.  All of the…