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[Pattern-book of bridles, bits and straps].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize LJS 239
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Animal culture--Early works to 1800.
- Animal culture.
- Bridles--Early works to 1800.
- Bridles.
- Horsemanship--Equipment and supplies--Early works to 1800.
- Horsemanship.
- Horsemanship--Equipment and supplies.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, German -- 16th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Early works.
- drawings (visual works)
- paintings (visual works)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Marcus Fugger (Augsburg); a Count of Oettingen-Wallerstein; and Edwin Dloss (1853).
- Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto Semper progrediens (inside upper cover).
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1961, lot 173, to G. Heilbrun.
- Appears in Paul Breman's cat. 1 (1970), no. 1; also handled by Francesco Radaeli of Bredford Libri Rari.
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1998.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- 175 leaves : paper ; 505 x 350 (335 x 245) mm bound to 510 x 360 mm
- Production:
- [Upper Saxony], [1560?]
- Language Note:
- German.
- Summary:
- Collection of full-scale drawings (some painted in color) of cavessons, curbs, and bits, perhaps by Veit Forster, teacher of Mang Seutter, who published a collection of engravings of these types of equipment in 1584. Forster and Seutter were stablemasters for Marcus Fugger, owner of this manuscript.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Paper, i (late 18th-/early 19th-century paper) + 175 + i (late 18th-/early 19th-century paper); modern foliation in pencil on every tenth leaf, lower right recto.
- Layout: Written in up to 50 long lines; ruled in lead.
- Script: Written in German Gothic script, with calligraphic headings.
- Decoration: Color painting of man leading horse (f. 1v); 6 color paintings of cavessons (f. 2r-4v, 13v, 15r); 70 paintings in blue and silver of bits, staves, and curbs (f. 5v-18v, 70v); 316 line drawings of bits (f. 19r-175v).
- Watermark: Armorial watermark of crossed swords, points up, halved with 11 three-leaf clovers arched with 10 stripes between clovers and swords.
- Binding: Blind-stamped pigskin binding dated 1579.
- Origin: Written in Upper Saxony, ca. 1560.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 129 (LJS 239).
- Cited as:
- Oversize UPenn LJS 239.
- OCLC:
- 1049386633
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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