University of Pennsylvania, LJS 46
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS706
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 46
- Title:
- Herbal ... [etc.
- Place:
- Italy and England
- Date:
- 1520, ca. 1600?
- Language:
- Plant names in Latin, with a few words in Italian (f. 2r-53v); texts about Morocco in English, Spanish, and Latin (54r-97v); glossary of words in Arabic, Spanish, and Latin (f. 98r-101r)
- Material:
- paper, color illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 102 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 302 x 205 mm (f. 2-53) and 290 x 205 (265 x 145) mm (f. 1, 54-104) bound to 307 x 215 mm +
- Former Owner(s):
- Syddell, Thomas
Syddell, Edward
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Collation: Paper, ii + 102 + ii; 11 228 324 444 58; [1-53], 1-17 [=54-70], [71-102]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in italic script, by at least two hands (f. 2-53, and f. 1, 54-101).
Decoration: 110 colored wash drawings of plants with roots and flowers (f. 2-53).
Binding: Parchment contemporary with later texts, gilt, with stamp of eagle and child on covers; remnants of 2 pairs of green silk ties; title (Herbal) written on spine in ink.
Origin: Herbal illustrated in Italy, ca. 1520 (f. 2r-53v); texts on Morocco written in England, ca. 1600 (f. 1r-v, 54r-101r).
Formerly owned by the Latham family of Lancashire (crest of eagle and child on covers) and by Thomas and Edward Syddell (16th-century inscription, f. 1r).
Sold at auction at Bonhams, Dec. 1995.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Lynn Ransom, Project Manager, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, 2012. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948497683503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vt1gq51/manifest
- Holding Institution:
