Vassar College, MS. 21

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11910

Shelfmark:

MS. 21

Title:

Compilation of excerpts from Sebastian Franck's Chronica

Scribe:

Zapf, Hauptrecht, 1546?-1630

Hauptrecht Zapf WIKIDATA

Place:

Czech Republic

Czech Republic TGN

Date:

1595 or 1596

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 314 leaves : paper ; 150 x 100 (135 x 75) mm. bound to 160 x 110 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from Kidd.
Collation: Paper, fol. i + 314 (foliated 1-220, 230-293, 293-318); 1-338 346 35-378 388−1 39-408
Layout: Written in 21 to 25 long lines; ruled on some leaves.
Script: Written in a semiprofessional script for the text and in a larger bold formatted script for the headings.
Origin: Written in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, in 1595 or 1596.
18th century inscription (in a monastic library?): Conventu(m) ...hensen (?) (fol. 1r). Sold at Zisska & Schauer, Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus, Munich, Auktion 59, May 9-11, 2012, lot 8 (this number in pencil on front pastedown). Les Enluminures: their Text Manuscript TM641 (in pencil in the lower outer corner of the lower pastedown); acquired in 2017 by Vassar College.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Inscriptions

Early works

World history

1500-1599

Manuscripts, German

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991007770269707396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College