Details

Subjects:

Jesuits -- Germany -- Heiligenstadt -- Private libraries -- Early works to 1800.
Jesuits.
Germany.
Private libraries.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Book catalogs.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Catalog of the Jesuit library at Heilegenstadt, arranged alphabetically by author, listing an estimated 3500-4000 volumes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and date from title page (p. vii).
Pagination: Paper, 213; [viii], 1-131, 122-368, [xlii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, in columns, in red and black ink.
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin, with clasps.
Origin: Written in Heilegenstadt in 1720 (p. vii).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Staatsgymnasium Heiligenstadt (stamp, p. i).
Gift of the Friends of the Library.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement B, Library Chronicle (1981), p. 9 (Ms. Latin 271).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 673

OCLC:

155985361