University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1617
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1428
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1617
- Title:
- Annotated copy of Tacitus' Germania.
- Freisleben, Leonhard, active 1523-1540
- Place:
- Leipzig
- Date:
- [after 1509]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 26 leaves : paper ; 209 x 145 mm bound to 215 x 160 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914
Hybrid books - 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:
- 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:
