Details

Subjects:

Switzerland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Breisgau (Germany) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Swabia (Germany) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Switzerland.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Description of 2 trips, presented in dialogue form between a pair of travelers designated Theseus and Phirithous, with the beginning of a third trip, although 4 are promised in the title (quatuor tramites, f. 1r). In the first trip, they set out from Switzerland and travel to Freiburg in the Breisgau (Brigovia) region of Germany by way of Hüningen; in the second, they leave Switzerland again to travel in the Swabia (Suevia) region of southern Germany; the third trip is described as a trip to Austria, although it starts with a return to Suevia. The travelers discuss cities, monasteries (Benedictine, Cistercian, and Carthusian), and local history.

Contents:

1. f.4v-16v: Ingressus ad totum itinerarium.
2. f.17r-86r: Trames primus ducens ex Helvetia in Brisgoiam.
3. f.86v-155r: Trames secundus ducens ex Helvetia in Sueviam, anno Domini 1688 mense Julio.
4. f.156r-166v: Trames tertius ducens ex Helvetia in Austriam, anno Domini 1691 mense Januario, reassumptus 1693.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, i + 170 + ii; [i-vii], 1, [i], 2-54, [i], 55-119, 102-129, 103, 131-280, 282-283, [i-ii], 284-304, [305-312 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled by impression, with a narrow column on the outer edge of the text block and a narrow row above it; pagination appears in the intersection of the narrow row and column, in the upper outer corner; running titles in the upper row; section headings in the outer column.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary (late 17th-century) armorial calf, spine gilt.
Origin: Possibly written in Italy, ca. 1694 (latest events described, f. 1v).
Formerly in the Bibliothèque du Château de la Plagne (note in ink, signed P. La Plagne, front flyleaf)

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Swann Galleries, 3 Apr. 1997, lot 182, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 168.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

809109610

Web link:

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