University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 442

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS682

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 442

Title:

Buch von den probierten Künsten.

Author:

Helm, Franz, approximately 1500-1567

Franz Helm WIKIDATA

Place:

Bavaria

Bavaria TGN

Date:

[between 1585 and 1599?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 132 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 305 x 190 (217 x 130) mm bound to 307 x 210 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dupeireux, Girard

Girard Dupeireux WIKIDATA

Holnstein aus Bayern, Franz Ludwig, Graf von

Franz Ludwig von Holnstein WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Written in 27-28 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in drypoint.
Origin: Probably written in Bavaria, in the late 16th century.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii + 132; 2-76, [i], 77-130, 132-133; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary leather, stamped and gold-tooled (but varnished and blackened), over late-18th or early-19th-century-leather over wooden boards.
Decoration: 30 illustrations in colored ink or colored washes over ink drawings, most being of types of weapons and explosives, with 2 illustrations of cannon-masters framed in red ink (f. 2r, 105r) and a landscape showing the use of animals to carry explosives into a city, also framed in red ink (f. 60r); headings in red and black.
Watermark: Cross in circle belonging to Piccard Three Mounts, Class X, nos. 2879-3059 (mainly Munich and Augsburg, also Donauwörth and the Tyrol, 1555-1635).
Script: Written in German cursive script.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2002.
Formerly owned by Girard Dupeireux (no. 124), perhaps a gift from his brother-in-law (Schwager), Baron Valentin von E[??], 1731 (inscription, f. 2v).
Formerly owned by Franz Ludwig, Graf von Holnstein aus Bayrn (armorial bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by the Furstl. Ysenburg und Büdingen'sche Bibliothek zu Büdingen (library stamps, f. 2v, 3r)

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

pen and wash drawings

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Artillery

Military art and science

Guilds

Explosives

Early works

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949206643503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3j960987/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania