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Title

Pattern-book of bridles, bits and straps

Other related names

• Forster, Veit, attributed name
• Fugger, Marcus, 1529-1597, former owner
• Dloss, Edwin, former owner
• Heilbrun, G, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 239
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948558353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746225628
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4855835

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German

Origin

Date

ca. 1560

Place

Upper Saxony

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.
   

Watermark

Armorial watermark of crossed swords, points up, halved with 11 three-leaf clovers arched with 10 stripes between clovers and swords.

Extent

175 leaves : 505 x 350 (335 x 245) mm. bound to 510 x 360 mm

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

Blind-stamped pigskin binding dated 1579.

Layout

Written in up to 50 long lines; ruled in lead.

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).

Script

Written in German Gothic script, with calligraphic headings.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Animal culture--Early works to 1800
• Bridles--Early works to 1800
• Horsemanship--Equipment and supplies--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings (visual works)
• Paintings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• German
• Germany
• Drawing
• Painting
• Paper
• Animal culture

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Color illustration, Man leading horse, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Color illustration, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Color illustration, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Color illustration, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Color illustration, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Color illustration, f.4r
• fol. 4v — Color illustration, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Color illustration, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Color illustration, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Color illustration, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Color illustration, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Color illustration, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Color illustration, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Color illustration, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Color illustration, f. 12r
• fol. 13v — Color illustration, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Color illustration, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Color illustration, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Color illustration, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Color illustration, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Color illustration, f. 16r
• fol. 17r — Color illustration, f. 17r
• fol. 18r — Color illustration, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Color illustration, f. 18v
• fol. 70v — Color illustration, f. 70v