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Title

Pattern-books of bridles and harnesses

Call number

Oversize LJS 356
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957628103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795363881
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5762810

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Added notes in Italian (Volume 1)

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1599

Place

Germany or Italy and Prague or Austria

Summary

Two collections of drawings of bridles, curbs, bits, and harnesses, one with simpler drawings and notes in Italian added by a later hand to most of the drawings (Volume 1, f. 1r-37v), and a second with more elaborate drawings of bridles, curbs, bits, and harnesses, without text (Volume 2).

Notes

• Ms. codices.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Volume 1: WM in ornate square frame, 3 crescents of descending size in a horizontal row (similar to Crescents, nos. 138-139, in David Woodward, Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps ca. 1540-1600) and a countermark of HB or IB surmounted by a trefoil (similar to Woodward, Letters, nos. 299-301); Volume 2: similar to Briquet Armoires 2231-2239, arms of the town of Schrobenhausen (Prague or Austria, mid- and late-16th century).

Extent

2 volumes (46, 31 leaves) : Volume 1: 436 x 295 mm. bound to 445 x 305 mm.; Volume 2: 434 x 285 mm. bound to 435 x 290 mm

Collation

Volume 1: Paper, i + 46 + i; 1¹⁸ 2²⁸; [1-46], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Volume 2: Paper, i + 31; 1-10² 11⁶ 12⁶(-1, pastedown); [1-31] (21-31 blank), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Volume 1: parchment over pasteboards with remnants of 2 pairs of green fabric ties, inscription No. 34 in ink on upper cover; Volume 2: half pigskin, blind-rolled and -stamped, over green parchment cut with double-fillet border, with remnants of 4 pairs of green fabric ties.

Script

Later notes written in cursive script (Volume 1).

Provenance

• Sold by Antiquariat Konrad Meuschel (Bad Honnef am Rhein, Germany) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1999.
   
• 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, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Drawing
• German
• Paper
• Germany
• Italy
• Austria
• Czech Republic
• Animal culture

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