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:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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).
Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie, aureus libellus ...
Early ownership inscription: L. Trochopolitanus (first name erased, f. 8r).
Formerly owned by Mary Augusta Elton (bookplate inside upper cover).
Gift of Orville H. Bullitt, 1965.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Hybrid books

annotations

To 843

Germany

History

Humanism

Early works

Germanic peoples

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9954142733503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania