University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1607
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1426
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1607
- Title:
- Hybrid compendium of Seneca's tragedies and scholarly apparatus.
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [after 1589]
- Language:
- Latin, with occasional words in Greek
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 73 leaves : paper ; 172 x 102 (134 x 70) mm bound to 180 x 125 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887
Hybrid books - Note:
- Printed contents cataloged separately under the title L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis Tragoediae. Lectiones variae e MS libris Bibliothecae Palatinae aliisque descriptae. Iusti Lipsi Animadversiones.
Origin: Written in Germany after 1589 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 21-23 long lines.
Binding: Contemporary (16th-century) blind-stamped pigskin with unidentified coat of arms on upper cover and arms of the city of Torgau on the lower cover.
Decoration: Passages from the tragedies and alternate readings of them written in red ink; running titles of the tragedies added to one printed work and a few marginal notes in others in the same red ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand; some annotations in the printed works by the same hand and other notations (often V.G.F. (?)) by another, perhaps later, hand .
Collation of manuscript leaves: Paper, 73; 1² 2-12⁶ 13⁶(-1); [i-ii] (following printed dedication), [1-71 (66-71 blank)] (following all printed works), modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by Ernst von Leutsch (professor, Göttingen, Germany); sold to the University of Pennsylvania as part of Leutsch's library (bookplate inside upper cover), 1890.
Transferred from Culture Class Collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9952546523503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38s4jq0z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
