University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 254

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DS ID:

DS150

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 254

Title:

Buch von den probierten Kü̈̈nsten

Buch von den probierten Künsten

Author:

Helm, Franz, approximately 1500-1567

Franz Helm WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Gänser, Georg

Georg Ganser WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

after 1562

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 285 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 320 x 210 (215 x 115) mm bound to 323 x 230 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 285; 110(-2) 210 38 4-810 910(-8) 1010(-1) 1110 1210(-4) 1310(-2) 1410 1510(-1) 1610(-1) 1710(-4) 18-2010 2110(-2) 2210(-2) 23-2610 2710(-1) 2810 2910(-3) 3010(-1) 318 3210(-6?); [i-xxvi], 1-52, 61-83, 88-92, 94, 96-111, 113-129, 131-133, 138-174, 177-186, 188-189, 191-238, 240-252, 254-255, 258-262, 264-270, [271-282]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto...
Layout: Written in 22-25 long lines; left vertical bounding line made by folding (giving each leaf 2 folds, with only one being used on each side as the left margin).
Script: Written in German cursive script, with headings in German Gothic script, perhaps in the hand of Georg Ganser of Cham (added note, f. 265r).
Decoration: Approximately 40 half- to full-page painted color illustrations of explosives and equipment for launching them or calculating trajectories (f. 49r-143r, 211v-246v); 4 double-page painted illustrations, 1 showing a large piece of equipment (f. 50v-51r) and 3 being of men operating cannons (f. 241v-242r, 242v-243r, 244v-245r); and 2 foldout painted illustrations of encampments...
Watermarks: Briquet Armoiries 1242 (Vienna, 1566, with variations in southern Germany 1573-1599); Briquet Lettre P 8880 (Prague, 1558, with variations in Austria and southern Germany, 1543-1576), and a coat of arms containing a turret, supported by griffins rampant.
Binding: Limp parchment.
Origin: Written in southeast Germany, perhaps Cham, after 1562 (later note, f. i recto; title page, f. ii recto; added note, f. 265r).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 21 May 1998, lot 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

paintings (visual works)

treatises

Manuscripts, German

Artillery

Explosives

Early works

Military art and science

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948588323503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3222r66r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania