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Goethe-Dichtungen : manuscript, 1950.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 785
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Language:
- German
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves)
- Contained In:
- Frenzel-Koehler collection of decorated manuscripts. Item 2
- Place of Publication:
- 1950.
- Summary:
- Copy made by Gertrude Frenzel-Koehler, in a calligraphic hand, of 2 poems by Goethe: Metamorphose der Pflanzen; and Metamorphose der Tiere. The initial of the first stanza of each poem is embellished with tendril-like swirls in gold, red and blue ink; and initials of sections of the poems are in blue, red, or gold. The main bodies of the poems are in black ink; the title of the first poem is in blue and that of the second is in gold. The manuscript comprises a paginated gathering of 2 folio-size bifolia, with a title page in blue, red, and gold.
- Contains:
- Metamorphose der Pflanzen.
- Metamorphose der Tiere.
- OCLC:
- 612342608
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