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[Pattern-book of bridles, bits and straps]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39p2w678
Title: [Pattern-book of bridles, bits and straps]
Name: Forster, Veit (attributed name)
Date: 1560
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Manuscripts, German, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Codices, Early works, Drawings (visual works), Paintings (visual works), manuscripts (documents)
Description: Collection of full-scale drawings (some painted in color) of cavessons, curbs, and bits, perhaps by Veit Forster, teacher of Mang Seutter, who published a collection of engravings of these types of equipment in 1584. Forster and Seutter were stablemasters for Marcus Fugger, owner of this manuscript.
Extent: 175 leaves : paper ; 505 x 350 (335 x 245) mm bound to 510 x 360 mm
Language: German
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Foliation: Paper, i (late 18th-/early 19th-century paper) + 175 + i (late 18th-/early 19th-century paper); modern foliation in pencil on every tenth leaf, lower right recto., Layout: Written in up to 50 long lines; ruled in lead., Script: Written in German Gothic script, with calligraphic headings., Decoration: Color painting of man leading horse (f. 1v); 6 color paintings of cavessons (f. 2r-4v, 13v, 15r); 70 paintings in blue and silver of bits, staves, and curbs (f. 5v-18v, 70v); 316 line drawings of bits (f. 19r-175v)., Watermark: Armorial watermark of crossed swords, points up, halved with 11 three-leaf clovers arched with 10 stripes between clovers and swords., Binding: Blind-stamped pigskin binding dated 1579., Origin: Written in Upper Saxony, ca. 1560., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., German.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39p2w678, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs239.html
Subject: Animal culture -- Early works to 1800, Bridles -- Early works to 1800, Horsemanship -- Equipment and supplies -- Early works to 1800, Animal culture, Bridles, Horsemanship -- Equipment and supplies
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 239
Provenance: Formerly owned by Marcus Fugger (Augsburg); a Count of Oettingen-Wallerstein; and Edwin Dloss (1853)., Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto Semper progrediens (inside upper cover)., Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1961, lot 173, to G. Heilbrun., Appears in Paul Breman's cat. 1 (1970), no. 1; also handled by Francesco Radaeli of Bredford Libri Rari., Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1998., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019., Fugger, Marcus, 1529-1597, former owner., Dloss, Edwin, former owner., Heilbrun, G., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9948558353503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p39p2w678/manifest

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