University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1617

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1428

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1617

Title:

Annotated copy of Tacitus' Germania.

Germania

Author:

Freisleben, Leonhard, active 1523-1540

Leonhard Freisleben WIKIDATA

Place:

Leipzig

Leipzig TGN

Date:

[after 1509]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 leaves : paper ; 209 x 145 mm bound to 215 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914

Mary Augusta Strachey WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie, aureus libellus ...
Ms. codex.
Collation: ii (modern paper) + 26 + ii (modern paper); 1-3⁶ 4⁸; gatherings signed A-D; [1-26], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Annotations written in Gothic cursive script by Leonhard Freisleben (signature, f. 26r) and by L. Trochopolitanus in red ink (signature, f. 8r).
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather by Charles Winstanley, Manchester (stamp, first flyleaf).
Origin: Probably written in Leipzig, soon after the publication of the printed work in 1509 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Early ownership inscription: L. Trochopolitanus (first name erased, f. 8r).
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Gift of Orville H. Bullitt, 1965.
Formerly owned by Mary Augusta Elton (bookplate inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Hybrid books

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

histories (literary genre)

annotations

Germanic peoples

History

To 843

Germany

Humanism

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954142733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p31s1m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania