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KREMS ABBEY -- Cabalistic computations, a birthday gift to Abbot Chrysostomus Johannes Wieser (1664-1747) of Lilienfeld Abbey from the Capuchins at Krems, in Latin, ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Austria, Krems] 1721.
315 x 200mm. 12 leaves, COMPLETE, including ONE FOLD-OUT depicting St Francis, with his stigmata, the Abbey of Lilienfeld and putti bearing the arms and portrait of CHRYSOSTOMUS JOHANNES WIESER, and SEVEN CARTOUCHES WITH WASH-DRAWINGS OF THE VIRTUES FACING CABALISTIC COMPUTATIONS (marginal staining to opening leaves). Original gold-patterned boards (lightly scuffed). Provenance: the manuscript was produced by the Capuchin monks at Krems (‘Fr. Eugenius Capuc. […] cum toto conventu Crembsensi’; the monastery was dissolved in 1796) as a birthday gift for Abbot Chrysostomus Johannes Wieser of the Cistercian monastery at Lilienfeld.
Chyrsostomus Johannes Wieser, elected Abbot in 1716, was vicar-general of the Cistercian order for Austria, Styria and Hungary. The present manuscript contains illustrations of the virtues accompanied by biblical quotations, riddles and cabalistic computations (the key to which can be found on f.4v) adding up to the year 1721, Wieser’s 57th birthday. His first novice at the Abbey of Lilienfeld (‘Campus Lilifer’) was historian and numismatist Chrysostomus Hanthaler (1690-1754) responsible, among other works, for an introductory manual for amateur numismatists entitled Exercitationes faciles de numis veterum (Nuremberg and Vienna, 1753).
315 x 200mm. 12 leaves, COMPLETE, including ONE FOLD-OUT depicting St Francis, with his stigmata, the Abbey of Lilienfeld and putti bearing the arms and portrait of CHRYSOSTOMUS JOHANNES WIESER, and SEVEN CARTOUCHES WITH WASH-DRAWINGS OF THE VIRTUES FACING CABALISTIC COMPUTATIONS (marginal staining to opening leaves). Original gold-patterned boards (lightly scuffed). Provenance: the manuscript was produced by the Capuchin monks at Krems (‘Fr. Eugenius Capuc. […] cum toto conventu Crembsensi’; the monastery was dissolved in 1796) as a birthday gift for Abbot Chrysostomus Johannes Wieser of the Cistercian monastery at Lilienfeld.
Chyrsostomus Johannes Wieser, elected Abbot in 1716, was vicar-general of the Cistercian order for Austria, Styria and Hungary. The present manuscript contains illustrations of the virtues accompanied by biblical quotations, riddles and cabalistic computations (the key to which can be found on f.4v) adding up to the year 1721, Wieser’s 57th birthday. His first novice at the Abbey of Lilienfeld (‘Campus Lilifer’) was historian and numismatist Chrysostomus Hanthaler (1690-1754) responsible, among other works, for an introductory manual for amateur numismatists entitled Exercitationes faciles de numis veterum (Nuremberg and Vienna, 1753).
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