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

Title

School miscellany

Authors

• Boethius, d. 524
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Terence
• Terence
• Virgil
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Foyle, William A. 1885-1963, former owner
• Altemps, Giovanni Angelo, duca di Gallese, d. 1620, former owner
• Allan, Henry, former owner
• Allan, Samuel, former owner

Call number

LJS 385
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954371393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778381833
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs385.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5437139 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3q23r13b

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1500

Place

Italy

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

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Watermark

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

Extent

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

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

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

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.

Script

Written in various humanistic hands.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Latin literature--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• annotations
• anthologies
• poems
• Comedy plays
• Drama
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Anthology
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Annotated
• Literature -- Prose
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Drawings, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Stamp, Inside front cover
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 2v
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial, Initial O, Face, f. 5v
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 10r
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 10r
• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 12r
• fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 14r
• fol. 14r — Manicule, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Manicule, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 15v
• fol. 15v — Manicule, f. 15v
• fol. 49r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 49r
• fol. 49r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 49r
• fol. 49v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Manicule, f. 50r
• fol. 52r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 52r
• fol. 53r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 53v
• fol. 54r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Manicule, f. 54v
• fol. 55v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 55v
• fol. 56v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 56v
• fol. 58v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 58v
• fol. 58v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Decorated initial, Initial H, Face, f. 59r
• fol. 59v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 59v
• fol. 60r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 60r
• fol. 61v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 61v
• fol. 61v — Manicule, f. 61v
• fol. 62v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 62v
• fol. 63r — Manicule, f. 63r
• fol. 63r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 63v
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 67v
• fol. 68r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 68r
• fol. 69r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 69r
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 70r
• fol. 70v — Manicule, f. 70v
• fol. 72r — Decorated initial, Initial P, Face, f. 72r
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 74r
• fol. 78r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 78r
• fol. 78v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 78v
• fol. 78v — Manicule, f. 78v
• fol. 79r — Manicule, f. 79r
• fol. 80r — Decorated initial, Initial O, Face, f. 80r
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 82r
• fol. 82r — Manicule, f. 82r
• fol. 83v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 83v
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 84v
• fol. 85r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 85r
• fol. 85v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 85v
• fol. 86v — Manicule, f. 86v
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial, Initial I, Man, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 87v
• fol. 88r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 88v
• fol. 90r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 90r
• fol. 90v — Manicule, f. 90v
• fol. 91r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 91r
• fol. 92r — Manicule, f. 92r
• fol. 92v — Drawing, f. 92v
• fol. 93r — Drawing, f. 93r
• fol. 93v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 93v
• fol. 95v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 95v
• fol. 97r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 97r
• fol. 98v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 98v
• fol. 99v — Drawing, Column, f. 99v
• fol. 101r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 101r
• Inside back cover — Drawings, Inside back cover