University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 423
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS666
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 423
- Title:
- Dos discursos de la cifra.
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- [circa 1600]
- Language:
- Spanish
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 82 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 372 x 280 (279 x 180) mm bound to 380 x 290 mm
- Note:
- Title from caption title for preface (p. 5).
Origin: Written in Spain, possibly Navarre, ca. 1600 (examples dated 1591, p. 120-121; 1600, p. 108, 114).
Decoration: 31 full-page illustrations (numbered Estampa I-Estampa XXXI) of keys to ciphers, in black, red, and green ink, including keys with string pointers (p. 95, 97), a movable sleeve (p. 125), volvelles (p. 129), and grilles (p. 131-133, 135-137). Full-page illustrations as well as small tables and examples inserted in text have simple decorative geometric frames. Rubrics, marginal...
Binding: Contemporary Spanish calf; restored spine with fragment of early label (De zifras).
Pagination: Paper, i + 82 + i; [3-4], 5-78, [i], 79, [80-81, i], 82, [83], 84-120 (odd-numbered pages contain full-page illustrations and are not numbered), [121], 124, [125], 126, [127], 128, [129], 130, [131-133], 134, [135-137], 138, [139], 140, [141-142], 143, [144], 145-163, [164], 165, [166]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Text pages written in 31 long lines.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Martayan Lan, cat. 28 (Sept. 2001), no. 189, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949193023503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39z90c6p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
