[Annotated copy of Tacitus' Germania].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Freisleben, Leonhard, active 1523-1540.

Contributor:

Tacitus, Cornelius.

Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914, former owner.

Bullitt, Orville H. (Orville Horwitz), 1894-1979, donor.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Germanic peoples--History--Early works to 1800.

Germanic peoples.

Humanism--Germany.

Humanism.

History.

Germany--History--To 843.

Germany.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

annotations

histories (literary genre)

Hybrid books.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Early ownership inscription: L. Trochopolitanus (first name erased, f. 8r).

Formerly owned by Mary Augusta Elton (bookplate inside upper cover).

Gift of Orville H. Bullitt, 1965.

Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Physical Description:

26 leaves : paper ; 209 x 145 mm bound to 215 x 160 mm

Production:

[Leipzig?], [after 1509]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Printed edition of Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie ... (Leipzig: Melchior Lotters, 1509) with extensive interlinear and marginal annotations by Freisleben and sparser underlining and annotations in the red ink of the Trochopolitanus signature.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: ii (modern paper) + 26 + ii (modern paper); 1-3⁶ 4⁸; gatherings signed A-D; [1-26], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Annotations written in Gothic cursive script by Leonhard Freisleben (signature, f. 26r) and by L. Trochopolitanus in red ink (signature, f. 8r).

Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather by Charles Winstanley, Manchester (stamp, first flyleaf).

Origin: Probably written in Leipzig, soon after the publication of the printed work in 1509 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie, aureus libellus ...

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 17 (Ms. Latin 243).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1617

Related Work:

Tacitus, Cornelius. Germania.

OCLC:

773615076