University of Pennsylvania, LJS 458
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS695
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 458
- Title:
- Abscondita naturae; collecta ab diversis philosoph[orum] et medicorum voluminibus /
- Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566
- Place:
- Cremona
- Date:
- 1545.
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 197 leaves : paper ; 208 x 150 (145 x 100) mm bound to 214 x 165 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Settala, Ludovico, 1552?-1633
Calvi, Sebastiano, 17th century
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. ii recto).
Foliation: Paper, 197 leaves; 12 2-820 924 1020 1118(-7); [i-ii], 1-187, [188-195], foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 17-18 long lines.
Script: Written in cursive script by Marco Girolamo Vida.
Decoration: Strapwork and decorative lettering on title page (f. ii recto); occasional manicules (for example, f. 31v).
Binding: Contemporary (mid-16th-century) calf, blind-tooled, with later gilt armorial stamp on covers.
Origin: Written in Cremona in 1545 (title page, f. ii recto).
Formerly owned by Milanese physician Ludovico Settala (coat of arms in ink, f. ii verso; armorial stamp on covers).
Formerly owned by the physician Sebastiano Calvi, who received the manuscript as a gift from Giacomo Filippo Scaravaggi (probably of Milan) in 1685 (inscription, f. i recto).
Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958073433503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34x54h38/manifest
- Holding Institution:
