[School miscellany].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Altemps, Giovanni Angelo, duca di Gallese, -1620, former owner.

Allan, Henry, former owner.

Allan, Samuel, former owner.

Foyle, William A. (William Alfred), 1885-1963, former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.

Latin literature.

Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Latin literature--Study and teaching.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

annotations

anthologies

poems

Comedy plays.

Drama.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

List of names, possibly of former student owners or readers, in a 16th-century hand (inside upper cover).

Formerly owned by Giovanni Angelo Altemps, duca di Gallese (inscription, f. 3v; gilt spine); Henry Allan (bookplate, Henrici Alani, laid inside upper cover); and Samuel Allan of Liscunnan, Derrock, County Antrim (pencil inscription on Henry Allan bookplate).

Formerly owned by William A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (leather bookplate, first flyleaf); sold as part of his collection at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 83, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Physical Description:

102 leaves : paper ; 216-218 x 140 (162-168 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 150 mm

Production:

[Italy], [circa 1500]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of classical Latin school texts in various hands. The most substantial works are Book 1 of Cicero's De officiis (f. 4r-45r) and Terence's comedies Andria (f. 49r-73r) and Eunuchus (f. 73r-99v), preceded by notes on comedy and tragedy (f. 48v). Briefer passages include the openings of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae (f. 1r-3r) and Virgil's Aeneid (f. 101r-101v) preceded by biographical notes about Virgil (f. 100v). Also includes recipes for remedies (f. 45v-47r) and didactic or humorous verses (f. 102r-102v). Frequent marginal and interlinear notes in the beginning of the Cicero (f. 4r-20r) and in the Terence.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 19-23 long lines; on some leaves, prickings or rulings in lead are visible.

Script: Written in various humanistic hands.

Decoration: 1- to 3-line initials in red and text initials touched with red at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r-16r), in the Andria (f. 49r-73r), and in the beginning of the Eunuchus (f. 73r-88r); additional rubrication in red in the Andria and beginning of the Eunuchus, particularly for indications of parts; a few text initials touched with green (f. 60v-61r); many initials with faces or other doodling penwork added; some manicules (for example, f. 8r, 63r, 70v); doodles and ink sketches inside covers.

Watermark: Similar to Briquet Coronne 4862 (Rome, Udine, Fabriano, Venice, 1483-1498)

Binding: Original wooden boards with leather spine, later (ca. 1600) gilt stamped for Giovanni Angelo Altemps; compass trials and geometric and doodled gouging on boards.

Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500.

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. 14 (LJS 385).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 46, 220-21 (cat. 65).

Cited as:

LJS 385.

Contains:

Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae. Selections.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Selections.

Terence. Andria.

Terence. Eunuchus.

Virgil. Aeneis. Selections

OCLC:

778381834

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page