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Title

Annotated copy of Tacitus' Germania

Authors

• Freisleben, Leonhard, fl. 1523-1540
• Tacitus, Cornelius

Other related names

• Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914, former owner
• Bullitt, Orville H. 1894-1979, donor

Call number

Ms. Codex 1617
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954142733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773615074
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5414273

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1509

Place

Leipzig?

Summary

Printed edition of Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie ... (Leipzig: Melchior Lotters, 1509) with extensive interlinear and marginal annotations by Freisleben and sparser underlining and annotations in the red ink of the Trochopolitanus signature.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie, aureus libellus ...
   

Extent

26 leaves : 209 x 145 mm. bound to 215 x 160 mm

Collation

ii (modern paper) + 26 + ii (modern paper); 1-3⁶ 4⁸; gatherings signed A-D; [1-26], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather by Charles Winstanley, Manchester (stamp, first flyleaf).

Script

Annotations written in Gothic cursive script by Leonhard Freisleben (signature, f. 26r) and by L. Trochopolitanus in red ink (signature, f. 8r).

Provenance

• Early ownership inscription: L. Trochopolitanus (first name erased, f. 8r).
   
• Formerly owned by Mary Augusta Elton (bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Gift of Orville H. Bullitt, 1965.
   
• Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Germanic peoples--History--Early works to 1800
• Humanism--Germany

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Histories
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• Annotated
• History
• Paper
• Germany
• German

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