University of Pennsylvania, LJS 385

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS638

Shelfmark:

LJS 385

Title:

School miscellany.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[circa 1500]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 102 leaves : paper ; 216-218 x 140 (162-168 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 150 mm

Former Owner(s):

Foyle, William A. 1885-1963

William Foyle WIKIDATA

Altemps, Giovanni Angelo, duca di Gallese, -1620

Giovanni Angelo Altemps WIKIDATA

Allan, Henry

Henry Allan WIKIDATA

Allan, Samuel

Samuel Allan WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 19-23 long lines; on some leaves, prickings or rulings in lead are visible.
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.
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)
Script: Written in various humanistic hands.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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).
List of names, possibly of former student owners or readers, in a 16th-century hand (inside upper cover).
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.

Keyword:

poems

Comedy plays

annotations

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Drama

anthologies

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Latin--15th century

Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Latin literature--Study and teaching

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954371393503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3q23r13b/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania