University of Pennsylvania, LJS 29

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DS ID:

DS611

Shelfmark:

LJS 29

Title:

Extratto da un libro de razza da cavalli del re Ferrante vechio de Aragona.

Author:

Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494

Ferdinand I of Naples WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

1541.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 47 leaves : parchment ; 228 x 157 (157 x 109) mm bound to 233 x 166 mm

Former Owner(s):

Curnieu, Charles Louis Adélaïde Henri Matheron, baron de, approximately 1811-1871

Charles Louis Adelaïde Henri Matheron Curnieu WIKIDATA

Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842

Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé WIKIDATA

Huzard, J.-B. 1755-1838

Jean-Baptiste Huzard WIKIDATA

Croy, Philippe de, 1496-1549

Philippe II de Croÿ WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Probably written in Venice, based on binding and script (Lisa Fagin Davis); dated 1541 (f. 47r).
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, i + 47 + i; 1-5⁸ 6⁸(-1); gatherings numbered 1-6 in modern pencil, lower right recto.
Binding: Original Venetian morocco over pasteboard, blind- and gilt-tooled.
Script: Written in a cancellaresca script.
Decoration: Pen flourishes on either side of title (f. 1r) and some chapter headings; calligraphic initials in left margins at beginning of chapters.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1994, lot 85, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold at auction by Etude Couturier Nicolay at Hôtel Drouot as part of the baron de Curnieu collection, 25 Feb. 1986, lot 144.
Formerly owned by Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte de Morel de Vindé (presentation letter from him to an unidentified woman, 1826, pasted inside upper cover).
Possibly first owned by Philippe de Croy, duc d'Arschot, marquis de Renty (after 1533), chevalier de la Toison d'Or, and royal chamberlain (inscriptions and pen trials inside lower cover).
Sold as part of the Huzard collection, 1843, to Charles Louis Adélaïde Henri Matheron, baron de Curnieu (armorial booklabel inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by J.-B. Huzard, preeminent 18th- and 19th-century collector of texts on horses (stamp, f. 1r).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

treatises

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Animal culture

Agriculture

Horsemanship

Horses

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950270113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38h2d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania