University of Pennsylvania, LJS 385
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS638
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 385
- Title:
- School miscellany
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- circa 1500
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 102 leaves : paper ; 216-218 x 140 (162-168 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 150 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Altemps, Giovanni Angelo, duca di Gallese, -1620
Allan, Henry
Allan, Samuel
Foyle, William A. 1885-1963
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 19-23 long lines; on some leaves, prickings or rulings in lead are visible.
Script: Written in various humanistic hands.
Decoration: 1- to 3-line initials in red and text initials touched with red at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r-16r), in the Andria (f. 49r-73r), and in the beginning of the Eunuchus (f. 73r-88r); additional rubrication in red in the Andria and beginning of the Eunuchus, particularly for indications of parts; a few text initials touched with green (f. 60v-61r); many initials with faces...
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Coronne 4862 (Rome, Udine, Fabriano, Venice, 1483-1498)
Binding: Original wooden boards with leather spine, later (ca. 1600) gilt stamped for Giovanni Angelo Altemps; compass trials and geometric and doodled gouging on boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500.
List of names, possibly of former student owners or readers, in a 16th-century hand (inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Giovanni Angelo Altemps, duca di Gallese (inscription, f. 3v; gilt spine); Henry Allan (bookplate, Henrici Alani, laid inside upper cover); and Samuel Allan of Liscunnan, Derrock, County Antrim (pencil inscription on Henry Allan bookplate).
Formerly owned by William A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (leather bookplate, first flyleaf); sold as part of his collection at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 83, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9954371393503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3q23r13b/manifest
- Holding Institution:
