Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Collection of approximately 45 drawings of bridles, curbs, and bits, mostly on recto, with no text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 49; 1¹⁰ 2⁴(+1) 3-4¹² 5¹⁰.
Layout: Most pages ruled with 3 verticals and various horizontals, in lead.
Decoration: Approximately 45 line drawings in ink over lead, some with cross-hatching added in ink.
Watermarks: Lily with leaf on either side of stem; 2 crossed arrows with 6-pointed star; 5-step ladder with 6-pointed star; letter R.
Binding: Modern brown paper board; a few of the largest drawings slightly affected by trimming at bottom edge (f. 1-3).
Origin: Drawn in Germany (Sotheby's) in the 17th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 June 1998, lot 441, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 129 (LJS 272).

Cited as:

LJS 272

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

795249880

Web link:

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