Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Miscellany on horsemanship

Other related names

• Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1033
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3905229
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3905229

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German, except for the list of emperors in Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1612

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of texts about horses addressing subjects such as riding, medical treatment, and cavalry. Several seem to be compiled from other, unidentified sources. A few items are concerned not with horses but with the house of Habsburg, such as a text about the Order of the Golden Fleece (f. 23v-24v) and a list in Latin of the emperors of the ancient Roman and Holy Roman empires (f. 334r-345r), concluding with Rudolph II, who died in 1612.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; date based on latest date appearing in the work (f. 364v) and conclusion of list of emperors.
   
• Forms part of the Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania), formerly 798 .H782.
   

Extent

392 leaves : 300 x 194 mm. bound to 308 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (newer paper) + 392 + i (newer paper); [1-392]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Mottled paper over boards; spine detached from upper cover.

Script

Written in a German cursive script.

Provenance

• Gift of Fairman Rogers, 1899.
   

Subjects topical

• Horses--Early works to 1800
• Horsemanship--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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