University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 124.1
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS106
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 124.1
- Title:
- Leaf from Speculum historiale, Book 29
- Author:
- Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
- Place:
- Paris?, France
- Date:
- circa 1400.
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 37 x 26 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Creswick, H. R., 1902-1988
Masson, Irvine, 1887-1962
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript leaf is housed with Oversize LJS 16, from which it was separated in the 20th century.
Part of 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).
Part of manuscript 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.
Part of manuscript formerly owned by H. R. Creswick, Bodley's Librarian and Cambridge University Librarian; this leaf removed and given as a gift by Creswick to Irvine Masson.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's with other items from Masson's collection, 16 Dec. 1957, lot 32, to Francis Edwards, Ltd.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 1997, lot 1, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949349953503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3qw74/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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