Christian Gottlieb Simon autograph album,
Autograph album, or album amicorum, originally belonging to Christian Gottlieb Simon of Freiberg, Saxony, and containing contributions collected by him between 1730 and 1737, in Freiberg, as well as in Dresden and Leipzig, where he apparently studied, perhaps in the field of mathematics. Five entrie...
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| Summary: | Autograph album, or album amicorum, originally belonging to Christian Gottlieb Simon of Freiberg, Saxony, and containing contributions collected by him between 1730 and 1737, in Freiberg, as well as in Dresden and Leipzig, where he apparently studied, perhaps in the field of mathematics. Five entries have later dates: 1752 (p. 135), 1762 (p. 5, 69), 1766 (p. 157), and 1779 (p. 107). Included are inscriptions by the owner's father, Johann Christian Simon (p. 85); his sister (J.C.S.; p. 123); and his son August Gottlieb Simon (in 1762; p. 69). Noteworthy signers are Jacob Stählin (Jakob von Staehlin), of Meiningen, later a scholar in St. Petersburg, and known for a book of anecdotes on Peter the Great (Leipzig, 1734; p. 126-127); and Alexander Heinrich Siepmann, who signs in 1734 in Dresden as a secretary in the service of Count Brühl (p. 124-125). The original title page has been obscured by a leaf pasted over it, but the writing on it appears faintly from the verso; it apparently reads: ALBUM / HOC / PATRONIS FAUTORIBUS / Amicis / submisse offert / Christian Gottlieb Simon / ... Freybergensis. The leaf that has been pasted on top is actually the title page of a different album. It is dated 1753, and reads: Hanc / ARAM / Non memoriae solum / sed amicitiae quoq[ue] / causa / Honoratissimis, suamissi / misque / COMILITONIBVS atque / AMICIS, consecrari / curauit / J. S. Bachstein / Natus Kunzend. Twelve additional leaves (tipped in, p. 9-10, 13-14, 19-20, 27-28, 41-42, 45-46, 51-52, 57-58, 61-62, 77-78, 145-146, 147-148) apparently come from this other album, the owner of which, based on the title page, can be identified as Johann Siegmund Bachstein, of Kunzendorf, Silesia. Bachstein went to school in Niederwiesa and Hirschberg; studied in Halle; and became the principal of the school in Niederwiesa in 1761. The added pages, from Bachstein's album, are dated 1747-1748, at Wittenberg, and 1753-1754, at Hirschberg, with a few undated. The album contains a variety of impressive visual works, often in combination with sayings or quotations. The original album has two watercolors (an emblematic depiction under the caption: Vires alit, p. 91; a map of the world, p. 155); four pen and ink wash drawings (one alluding to Simon's moving from Dresden to Leipzig, p. 115; and others, p. 3, 143, 151); and a trompe l'oeil drawing of a page from Ovid's Amores (p. 138). All of the added leaves have illustrations, chiefly pen and ink wash drawings (for example, a full-page depiction of a scene from the Greek myth of Cyparissus, p. 13; and three illustrations of student life, p. 20, 27, 61, which appear to be all in the same hand); two of the leaves have musical notations on one side (p. 10, 19). The contributions include many sayings from or allusions to classical literature (Virgil, Horace, Martial), as well as some quotations from European poetry or literary criticism (Opitz, Günther, Boileau, Johannes Secundus) |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (85 leaves) |