University of Pennsylvania, LJS 445
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS685
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 445
- Title:
- Prenosticatio.
- Lichtenberger, Johannes, active 15th century
- Place:
- Nuremberg?, Germany
- Date:
- [after 1488]
- Language:
- Middle High German, with some headings and sections in Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 227 leaves : paper ; 218 x 150 (158-162 x 110-114) mm bound to 230 x 165 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Holtzschuher, Veit Georg, 1573-1606
Holtzschuher, Veit Engelhardt, 1581-1656
Wilczek, Johann Nepomuk, Graf von
Burg Kreuzenstein (Austria)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
A detailed description written in 1997 by Regina Cermann (Institut für Mittelalterforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna) is available online, linked to the entry for LJS 445 on the Handschriftencensus site at http://www.handschriftencensus.de/25402.
Title from spine label.
Origin: Copied in or after 1488 (manuscript copy of colophon of edition of Lichtenberger's work printed in Heidelberg in 1488, f. 61v); copied in Germany, possibly Nuremberg (based on binding (Nuremberg named in document used as flyleaf) and inscriptions of 16th-century owners (Cermann)), although a few of the works are intended for an Augsburg audience (f. 75-95r, 132r-146r, 210r).
Collation: Paper, 227; several gatherings bound out of order (f. 62-74 should follow f. 97-121); [1-227], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: Original (late 15th-century) quarter pigskin over wooden boards, blind-stamped, clasp; 17th-century (?) spine label Prenosticatio, was di. groß Coniunction und d. Eclipsis bedeuten etc.; restored in 1999.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script, with some Latin headings in display capitals.
Decoration: Diagrams and tables in red and black ink; diagrams of eclipses in yellow and brown wash (f. 110r-113v); pen-and-wash drawings of the signs of the zodiac (f. 148r-151r; some zodiac illustrations cut out) and other images, including monsters (f. 178r-182v); rubrication, 2-line initials, paragraph marks, and underlining in red.
Layout: Most sections written in 29-32 long lines; a few written in 2 columns of 29-34 lines (f. 147r-151v, 178r-183r, 198r-209v); frame-ruled in ink.
Appears in Jörn Günther and Bruce Ferrini's Overlooking the ages: a private exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, miniatures and printed books (1999), no. 21.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Formerly owned by Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek (1835-1922), held by that family in the library of Burg Kreuzenstein probably until 1945, no. 22170 (= 82, possibly written in pencil, f. 227v) (Regina Cermann).
Formerly owned in the late 16th century by the Holtzschuher family of Nuremberg (inscriptions, Veit Georg Holtzschuher, dated 1582, f. 125r; his brother Veit Engelhardt Holtzschuher, Nuremberg shoemaker, dated 1589, f. 95v-96r; same name written in a later hand, f. 3v).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2002.
Appears in the catalog The art of the book from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance: a journey through a thousand years, accompanying an exhibition organized by Jörn Günther and the John J. Burns Library, Boston College, 2000, no. 53. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958068073503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3qr4nr3s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
