Details

Subjects:

Habsburg, House of.
Horses -- Early works to 1800.
Horses.
Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800.
Horsemanship.
Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German, except for the list of emperors in Latin.

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.
Foliation: Paper, i (newer paper) + 392 + i (newer paper); [1-392]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a German cursive script.
Binding: Mottled paper over boards; spine detached from upper cover.
Origin: Written in Germany in the early 17th century.
Forms part of the Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania), formerly 798 .H782.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Fairman Rogers, 1899.

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), p. 244 (Ms. Veterinary Library 1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1033.

Contributor:

Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900, former owner.

OCLC:

155928882

Access Restriction:

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