Landgraf Carl

Here you can find a selection of material from the special collections of Kassel State Library related to the life, reign and environment of Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel.

• Jakob Vogeley: Astronomical treatise on the constellation of the stars at Carl's birth(2° Ms. Hass. 64).

• Congratulatory addresses on the birthdays of the landgrave (August 3; from 1700: August 14), orations, panegyrici- after 1670, dt. - Anonymous (2° Ms. Hass. 83b[1)- after 1670, hebr. - Anonymous(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[2)- 17th cent, French - Christophe Louis d'Archangely(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[11)- 1698, Latin - Ferdinand Franz Sak(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[12)- 1699, Latin - Ferdinand Franz Sak(2° Ms. Hass. 80)- c. 1700, dt. - Anonymous(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[13)- 1701, lat. - Ferdinand Franz Sak(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[15)- c. 1701, Ital. - Giovanni Michele Pieri(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[5)- 1703, lat. - Ferdinand Franz Sak(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[14)- 1707, dt. - Johann Jakob Dünckelberg(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[17)- 1717, Eng. - Charle Lefevre(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[19)- 1719, Lat. - Philipp Heinrich Kleinschmied(2° Ms. Hass. 81[4)- 1726, Eng. - Father with 6 sons(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[29)- 1727, Eng. - Frantz Eberhard Legrand(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[31)- 1727, Eng. - J. M. Roos(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[32)- 1729, Eng. - Anonymous(2° Ms.Hass. 83b[34)- 1729, Eng. - Daniel Otto Kegel(8° Ms. Hass. 90)- 1729, French - François Cagnel(8° Ms. Hass. 91)- 1729, Eng. - Wilhelm J.C.G. (8° Ms. Hass. 93)

• Poems about Carl (German and French)(4° Ms. poet. et roman. 19)

• Adam Friedrich von Schlieben: A Voyage to the Low Countries 1708 (Tagebuch des Kammerjunkers)(2° Ms. Hass. 62)

• Christophe Louis d'Archangely: Birthday wishes for Marie Amelie, French: 1702(2° Ms. Hass. 83b[16)

• Inventory of the estate of Marie Amelie(2° Ms. Hass. 147[1 and 2)
• Invoices for the sale of the estate of Marie Amelie in 1712(2° Ms. Hass. 347)

• Friedrich Lucae: Letter of consolation for the death of Prince Karl: 1677(2° Ms. Hass. 82)

• Accounts of Carl's court: 1656-1663(2° Ms. Hass. 350)- Annual account for 1692(2° Ms. Hass. 338)- Gewand Cammer Manuale: 1718-1723 (2° Ms. Hass.359)- Court account: 1727-1729 (2° Ms. Hass.353)- Diary of the "Lichtkämmerei": 1728-1729 (2° Ms. Hass.351)- Inventory of the residence: 1718(2° Ms. Hass. 354)

• Invoices for the court of Carl's heir, Erbprinz Frederick: 1705(2° Ms. Hass. 343), 1706(2° Ms. Hass. 345, 2° Ms. Hass. 349), 1710(2° Ms. Hass. 344)

• Invoices for the court of Prince Wilhelm 1720-1721(2° Ms. Hass. 348)

• Abraham von Sobiewolsky: War Diary (Morea): 1687-1693(8° Ms. Hass. 2)

• Marching and Parading Manual ("Exerzierschemata") of the Hessian Infantry(4° Ms. Hass. 192)
• Infantry regulations: 1728(2° Ms. Hass. 66)

• Ceremonial dress and insignia of the Order of the Hessian Golden Lion: after 1770(2° Ms. Hass. 286a)

• Goulon: Mémoires pour l'attaque et la déffence d'une place: 1687, copy dedicated to Carl(2° Ms. math. 8)
• Augustin von Steube: Miles perpetuus: 1723/1725, memoir for Carl(4° Ms. Hass. 74)

• Birger Samuelsson Elfving: Begynnelse Til Een Kort Politica Mechanica Militaris: 1717/1720 , copy dedicated to Erbprinz Friedrich(4° Ms. math. 18)

• Invoices of mines, smelteries and hammer works (including the "Messinghof"): 1703(2° Ms. Hass. 342).
• Marcus Fulda: Treatise on brass foundries: 1717(4° Ms. Hass. 434)
• Nicolaus Mollwitz: Expert opinion and thoughts on the journey and inspection of mines and smelteries in Schwarzburg-Rudolstädt: 1715(2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 6[1)

• Nicolaus Mollwitz: On the smelter manufactory in Almerode: 1732(2° Ms. Hass. 67)

• Burkhard Christoph von Münnich: Visitation of the Diemel stream(2° Ms. Hass. 104)
• Project of a waterway between Weser and Rhine: 1710(2° Ms. Hass. 105)

• Felice Oleati: Description of how to preserve and keep the silk worms: 1713(4° Ms. philos. 14)

• Nicolaus Mollwitz: On the care and improvement of cattle breeding: c. 1720(2° Ms. philos. 20)

• Nicolaus Mollwitz: Detailed description of the planned general lottery: 1715(2° Ms. philos. 16)

• Matthias von Engers: Annals of Hesse and Thuringia 411-1709 (with family tree of the Landgraves of Hesse up to Carl)(2° Ms. Hass. 28)
• Genealogical proof of the descent of the Hessian landgraves from Charlemagne: late 17th century(2° Ms. Hass. 30)

• Johann Eckard Volland: Short Introduction to the History of Hesse; early 18th century(4° Ms. Hass. 33[1 and 2)
• Johann Eckard Volland: Miscellanea Historia Hassiaca: around 1700(4° Ms. Hass. 35)
• Johann Eckard Volland: Miscellanea Historia Hassiaca: early 18th century(4° Ms. Hass. 34)
• Johann Eckard Volland: Hessian History. Helmershausen: after 1712(4° Ms. Hass. 36)

• Johann Christian Haas: Translation of the Florentine Natural Experiments (translated from Italian)(2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 8).

• Diarium experimentale: 1694(2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 6[2)

• Collection of alchemical writings addressed to Landgrave Carl(2° Ms. chem. 16)

• Conrad Mel: Pantometrum Carolinum (surveying instrument), copy dedicated to Carl: 1707 (2° Ms. math. 40)
• Conrad Mel: Concerning an instrument for nautical navigation, copy dedicated to Carl: 1708(2° Ms. math. 41)
• Conrad Mel: Der selbst ackernde Pflug (concering an improved plow), copy dedicated to Carl: c. 1710(2° Ms. math. 39)
• Conrad Mel: Report on waterworks (Unterthänigster Bericht über Pump- und Schöpfwerke), copy dedicated to Carl: c. 1710 (2° Ms. math. 42)
• (Elias Bessler): Orffyraeana(2° Ms. math. 25)

• Paolo Mossonio d'Outrelousche: Il giubilo d'amstelo: 1691, copy dedicated to Carl(4° Ms. theater. 23)

• Simon du Boury / Santus: L'opera de la Victoire, copy dedicated to Carl: 1701(2° Ms. theatr. 1[1)

• F. Robert: Le triple marriage: 1720, copy dedicated to Carl(4° Ms. theatr. 13)

• Componimento drammatico: 1729, copy dedicated to Carl(4° Ms. theatr. 9)

• Carlo Fedeli: c. 1680 (in: 2° Ms. mus. 34)
• Willem Deutekom: Music for viola da gamba: c. 1680(4° Ms. Mus. 108[2, 4° Ms. Mus. 108[ 3, 4° Ms. Mus. 108[4, 4° Ms. Mus. 108[5)

• Fortunato Chelleri: La Giuditta: 1726(Israel appendix 12)
• Fortunato Chelleri: Compositions: c. 1750(Israel appendix 14)

• August Kühnel: Music for viola da gamba: c. 1695(4° Ms. mus. 108[6, 4° Ms. Mus. 108[7)
• August Kühnel: Sonata o partite: 1698(2° Mus. 44)

• Census of the city of Kassel 1663 (copies)(2° Ms. Hass. 334[1 and 2° Ms. Hass. 334[2)

• Perspective view of the "Schöne Aussicht" (Bellevue): c. 1714(35 S 2/231)

• Draft of a ring-shaped fortification of the city of Kassel, without Oberneustadt: c. 1680(35 Ms. HP 6)
• Draft of a fortification of the Oberneustadt of Kassel: c. 1720(35 Ms. HP 18)
• Draft of a fortification of the Oberneustadt of Kassel: c. 1715(35 Ms. HP 12)