1733 - Cooper.

Cooper. Cooper's book for H. Silbersdorff. German manuscript on paper. Austria (Tyrol), dat. (18)35. qu.8°. (ca. 11 x 18 cm). 132 leaves (of which ca. 35 w.). With 32 construction drawings. Partly läd. The booklet contains a total of three parts, probably all created at about the same time by the cooper's apprentice H. Silbersdorff. The "Küferbuch" (37 leaves) is followed by a section with recipes for the production of wine and liqueur (16 leaves), and verses and prose texts are entered in the back part (43 leaves); interspersed are individual other recipes. The headings are written in Antiqua cursive, the texts in neat Kurrent script and occasionally with small decorative borders. - On the title page with the heading "Küferbuch", the date "Mai (18)35" is noted under the signature "H. Silbersdorff", proudly circled with pen strokes, probably the beginning of the apprenticeship. The construction of barrels is explained in 27 meticulous drawings, each with short explanatory texts, ranging from a simple round barrel to a barrel "in the style of an hourglass". In between there are a total of six small recipes, such as "making copper engravings", a "household remedy for ulcers" or an "ointment for the Kretz". - The second part, also signed by H. Silbersdorff and entitled "Vom Wein und Liqueurs; überhaupt was die Kellerey anbelangt", is divided into three parts. The first section (nine leaves) under the heading "Von der Behandlung des Weins im Keller" contains 34 recipes and advice, for example for the production of herbal wine, muscatel wine and elecampane wine or the preparation of the "allgemein bekannte Weinschöne". D