University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 62
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS746
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 62
- Title:
- Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides.
- Place:
- Eastern Mediterranean
- Date:
- [14--]
- Language:
- Greek
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 121 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 261 x 190 (210 x 130) mm bound to 268 x 202 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in the eastern Mediterranean in the 15th century.
Collation: Paper, 121; 1-2⁴ 3² 4⁸(-2) 5⁴ 6¹⁰ 7¹² 8²⁴(-1) 9¹⁰(-1) 10¹⁰(-4, outer 2 bifolia) 11⁸(-2) 12¹⁰(-2) 13⁸(-1) 14¹³(?) 15⁸(-2, central bifolium) 16¹; text of the herbal (f. 31-121) has early pagination in ink, 1-66, 69-90, 97-108, 113-114, 117-124, 127-146, 149-165, [v], 166-187, 192-199, upper outer corners.
Binding: Possibly 17th-century Greek blind-stamped calf over pasteboards; some leaves detached or almost detached.
Decoration: 71 pen-and-wash drawings of medicinal plants (f. 1r-10v); pen-and-wash illustrations of Dioscorides and a companion collecting plants in bags (f. 1v) and Dioscorides and Galen (f. 4v); headings, captions, small initials, and large initials (sometimes with flourishes and extensions; for example, f. 82 (p. 117-118)) in red.
Script: Written in Greek cursive minuscule script.
Layout: Written in 20-36 long lines.
Ms. codex.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Dec. 1996, lot 61, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948546323503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tt4ft7r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
