University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1142

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS944

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1142

Title:

Miscellany.

Author:

Schwartz, Hanns

Hanns Schwartz WIKIDATA

Place:

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Rothenburg ober der Tauber TGN

Date:

1582-1597.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 86 leaves : paper ; 210-216 x 153-158 mm bound to 223 x 172 mm

Former Owner(s):

Merz, August, 1873-1970

August Merz WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia), Bavaria, Germany, from 1582 to 1597.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in several German cursive hands.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 84 + i (modern paper); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: Modern boards.
Decoration: Title page (f. 1r) and major section rubrics (ff. 2r, 4r, 7r, 9r) written in a calligraphic hand, with first line enlarged and initials (and sometimes other letters) decorated, in dark and light brown ink, sometimes with flecks of green; and minor section rubrics (ff. 13r, 13v, 18v) with enlarged decorated initials. Some text in a more formal calligraphic hand (ff. 29v-42v...
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1960.
Formerly owned by August Merz, 1862 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Keyword:

songs (musical compositions)

Manuscripts, German

poems

Manuscripts, Renaissance

prayers (literary genre)

chronicles

codices (bound manuscripts)

Arithmetic

Peasant uprisings

Medicinal plants

Early modern, 1500-1700

German poetry--Early modern

Meistersinger

German poetry

Gardening

Early works

Didactic literature, German

Proverbs, German

Botany, Medical

Germany--Franconia

Germany--Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942841823503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39p2w61c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania