Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Pattern-book of bridles and bits

Call number

LJS 272
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5762675
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5762675

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of approximately 45 drawings of bridles, curbs, and bits, mostly on recto, with no text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Lily with leaf on either side of stem; 2 crossed arrows with 6-pointed star; 5-step ladder with 6-pointed star; letter R.

Extent

49 leaves : 400 x 273 mm. bound to 400 x 280 mm

Collation

Paper, 49; 1¹⁰ 2⁴(+1) 3-4¹² 5¹⁰.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern brown paper board; a few of the largest drawings slightly affected by trimming at bottom edge (f. 1-3).

Layout

Most pages ruled with 3 verticals and various horizontals, in lead.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 June 1998, lot 441, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

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)
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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