University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 356

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS625

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 356

Title:

Pattern-books of bridles and harnesses.

Place:

Germany or Italy and Prague or Austria

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1550 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Added notes in Italian (Volume 1)

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (46, 31 leaves) : paper ; Volume 1: 436 x 295 mm bound to 445 x 305 mm; Volume 2: 434 x 285 mm bound to 435 x 290 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Volume 1: drawn in Germany or Italy in the second half of the 16th century with notes added later in Italy; Volume 2: drawn in Prague or Austria (based on watermark) in the second half of the 16th century.
Binding: Volume 1: parchment over pasteboards with remnants of 2 pairs of green fabric ties, inscription No. 34 in ink on upper cover; Volume 2: half pigskin, blind-rolled and -stamped, over green parchment cut with double-fillet border, with remnants of 4 pairs of green fabric ties.
Collation: Volume 1: Paper, i + 46 + i; 1¹⁸ 2²⁸; [1-46], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Volume 2: Paper, i + 31; 1-10² 11⁶ 12⁶(-1, pastedown); [1-31] (21-31 blank), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Later notes written in cursive script (Volume 1).
Decoration: Volume 1: approximately 160 line drawings in ink; Volume 2: 37 drawings in ink with elaborate infill and crosshatching, one with watercolor added (f. 16r).
Watermarks: Volume 1: WM in ornate square frame, 3 crescents of descending size in a horizontal row (similar to Crescents, nos. 138-139, in David Woodward, Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps ca. 1540-1600) and a countermark of HB or IB surmounted by a trefoil (similar to Woodward, Letters, nos. 299-301); Volume 2: similar to Briquet Armoires 2231-2239, arms of the town of...
Ms. codices.
Sold by Antiquariat Konrad Meuschel (Bad Honnef am Rhein, Germany) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

drawings (visual works)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Italian

Animal culture

Horsemanship--Equipment and supplies

Bridles

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957628103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3q68m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania