Details

Other Title:

Viris generosissimis et magnificis, patronis ac fautoribus amplissimis atque honoratissimis amicis.

Subjects:

Autographs -- Collections.
Autographs.
Quotations, Latin.

Form/Genre:

Collections.
Codices.
Autograph albums.
Alba amicorum.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with a few inscriptions in Greek, French, English, German, and Cyrillic.

Summary:

Collection of inscriptions predominantly in Latin, with signatures of many individuals, followed by a collection of Latin quotations from classical authors (f. 220v-251v). The entries dated 1731 were collected in Zittau, and many seem to be associated with a gymasium and college there; the entries dated 1733 were added in Frankfurt an der Oder.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r); full text reads Viris generosissimis et magnificis, patronis ac fautoribus amplissimis etque honoratissimis amicis hoc philopinacium nuntia fama dicat per Christianum Friedericum Anders.
Foliation: Paper, 252; [i, 251]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Text appears on f. 3, 71, 81-82, 87, 91-92, 94, 96, 106-107, 109 (tipped in), 111, 131, 161, 180-181, 183, 185, 188-189, 192, 195-198, 200, 204, 213-214, 220-251.
Script: Written in various scripts by multiple hands.
Decoration: Ornamental frame in watercolor on title page (f. 3r); watercolor scene of Venus and Cupid in red, with an armorial frame in watercolor in black (f. 109r).
Binding: Contemporary gilt red morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Compiled in Zittau and Frankfurt an der Oder, 1731-1733.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate (f. 180v): Armorial, with a lion rampant holding a harp and with the motto Deo proximo.
Formerly part of the Bechstein collection (German philology), University of Pennsylvania Library (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Transferred to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 1962.

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. 143 (Ms. Latin 183).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1046

OCLC:

155930580