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Title

Theseus Christianus peregrinatur cum Phirithoo per aliquot Europae regiones

Call number

LJS 168
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5818554
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5818554

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1687-1694

Place

Switzerland?

Summary

Description of 2 trips, presented in dialogue form between a pair of travelers designated Theseus and Phirithous, with the beginning of a third trip, although 4 are promised in the title (quatuor tramites, f. 1r). In the first trip, they set out from Switzerland and travel to Freiburg in the Breisgau (Brigovia) region of Germany by way of Hüningen; in the second, they leave Switzerland again to travel in the Swabia (Suevia) region of southern Germany; the third trip is described as a trip to Austria, although it starts with a return to Suevia. The travelers discuss cities, monasteries (Benedictine, Cistercian, and Carthusian), and local history.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Formerly in the Bibliothèque du Château de la Plagne (note in ink, signed P. La Plagne, front flyleaf)
   

Extent

170 leaves : 201 x 158 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 209 x 182 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 170 + ii; [i-vii], 1, [i], 2-54, [i], 55-119, 102-129, 103, 131-280, 282-283, [i-ii], 284-304, [305-312 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 17th-century) armorial calf, spine gilt.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; ruled by impression, with a narrow column on the outer edge of the text block and a narrow row above it; pagination appears in the intersection of the narrow row and column, in the upper outer corner; running titles in the upper row; section headings in the outer column.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Swann Galleries, 3 Apr. 1997, lot 182, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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