Details

Subjects:

Animal culture -- Early works to 1800.
Bridles -- Early works to 1800.
Horsemanship -- Equipment and supplies -- Early works to 1800.
Animal culture.
Bridles.
Horsemanship -- Equipment and supplies.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, German -- 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices.
Early works.
Drawings (visual works)
Paintings (visual works)

Language:

German.

Summary:

Collection of full-scale drawings (some painted in color) of cavessons, curbs, and bits, perhaps by Veit Forster, teacher of Mang Seutter, who published a collection of engravings of these types of equipment in 1584. Forster and Seutter were stablemasters for Marcus Fugger, owner of this manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (late 18th-/early 19th-century paper) + 175 + i (late 18th-/early 19th-century paper); modern foliation in pencil on every tenth leaf, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in up to 50 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in German Gothic script, with calligraphic headings.
Decoration: Color painting of man leading horse (f. 1v); 6 color paintings of cavessons (f. 2r-4v, 13v, 15r); 70 paintings in blue and silver of bits, staves, and curbs (f. 5v-18v, 70v); 316 line drawings of bits (f. 19r-175v).
Watermark: Armorial watermark of crossed swords, points up, halved with 11 three-leaf clovers arched with 10 stripes between clovers and swords.
Binding: Blind-stamped pigskin binding dated 1579.
Origin: Written in Upper Saxony, ca. 1560.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marcus Fugger (Augsburg); a Count of Oettingen-Wallerstein; and Edwin Dloss (1853).
Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto Semper progrediens (inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1961, lot 173, to G. Heilbrun.
Appears in Paul Breman's cat. 1 (1970), no. 1; also handled by Francesco Radaeli of Bredford Libri Rari.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 129 (LJS 239).

Cited as:

Oversize UPenn LJS 239.

Contributor:

Forster, Veit, attributed name.
Fugger, Marcus, 1529-1597, former owner.
Dloss, Edwin, former owner.
Heilbrun, G., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

1049386633

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page