University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 16

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS103

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 16

Title:

Speculum historiale, Books 25-28

Speculum historiale

Author:

Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264

Vincent of Beauvais WIKIDATA

Place:

Paris?, France

Paris TGN

France TGN

Date:

1400?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 176 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 370 x 255 (254 x 155) mm bound to 381 x 275 mm

Former Owner(s):

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Creswick, H. R., 1902-1988

Harry Creswick WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern parchment) + 176 + i (modern parchment); 12 2-138 148(-1) 15-198 208(-1) 21-2238; [1-102, 104-148, 150-178]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with 2 pages cut out (f. 103, f. 149) included in count. Signatures sometimes visible or partly visible in red ink, lower right recto. Catchwords on the last leaf of each gathering, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; frame-ruled in ink with double bounding lines on each side.
Script: Written in Gothic semi-cursive book script.
Decoration: 4 6- to 8-line puzzle initials in blue and burnished gold with elaborate penwork infill and surround in dark blue and red and with full-length bar borders decorated with half fleurs-de-lis in blue and gold and with penwork (f. 1v, 3r, 45r, 148r); 2-line chapter initials in blue or red with contrasting penwork in bright red or blue-black throughout; line-fillers in red and blue...
Binding: 20th-century morocco, title gilt, by Douglas Cockerell & Son, 1980.
Origin: Written in France, probably Paris, circa 1400.
A detached leaf from Book 29 and two bifolia detached from Book 30 (LJS 124.1 and LJS 124.2) are in a folder housed with the manuscript.
Formerly owned by Guillaume Libri; sold at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of part of the Libri collection, 1 June 1864, lot 71, to Boone (Thomas and William Boone or Thomas Boone & Son or a related firm, all London).
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 24654); appeared at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of part of the Phillipps collection, 6 June 1899, lot 367, but presumably not sold; sold at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of part of the Phillipps collection, 24 June 1935, lot 74.
Formerly owned by H. R. Creswick, Bodley's Librarian and Cambridge University Librarian.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 Dec. 1982, lot 53.
Appears in Laurence Witten's cat. 18 (1983), no. 17.
Formerly owned by a private German collector (ms. 24, sticker inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 20 June 1995, lot 87, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.

Keyword:

encyclopedias

Manuscripts, Latin

Fifteenth century

chronicles

Manuscripts, Medieval

Fourteenth century

World history

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949282643503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p35x25d3h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania