[School miscellany]
- Description
- Collection of classical Latin school texts in various hands. The most substantial works are Book 1 of Cicero's De officiis (f. 4r-45r) and Terence's comedies Andria (f. 49r-73r) and Eunuchus (f. 73r-99v), preceded by notes on comedy and tragedy (f. 48v). Briefer passages include the openings of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae (f. 1r-3r) and Virgil's Aeneid (f. 101r-101v) preceded by biographical notes about Virgil (f. 100v). Also includes recipes for remedies (f. 45v-47r) and didactic or humorous verses (f. 102r-102v). Frequent marginal and interlinear notes in the beginning of the Cicero (f. 4r-20r) and in the Terence.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- annotations
- anthologies
- poems
- comedy plays
- drama (literary genre)
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1500
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Latin literature -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800
- Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800
- Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Latin literature -- Study and teaching
- Collection
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 102 leaves : paper ; 216-218 x 140 (162-168 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 150 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Layout: Written in 19-23 long lines; on some leaves, prickings or rulings in lead are visible.
- Script: Written in various humanistic hands.
- Decoration: 1- to 3-line initials in red and text initials touched with red at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r-16r), in the Andria (f. 49r-73r), and in the beginning of the Eunuchus (f. 73r-88r); additional rubrication in red in the Andria and beginning of the Eunuchus, particularly for indications of parts; a few text initials touched with green (f. 60v-61r); many initials with faces or other doodling penwork added; some manicules (for example, f. 8r, 63r, 70v); doodles and ink sketches inside covers.
- Watermark: Similar to Briquet Coronne 4862 (Rome, Udine, Fabriano, Venice, 1483-1498)
- Binding: Original wooden boards with leather spine, later (ca. 1600) gilt stamped for Giovanni Angelo Altemps; compass trials and geometric and doodled gouging on boards.
- Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500.
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Latin.
- Related Work: Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae. Selections.
- Related Work: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Selections.
- Related Work: Terence. Andria.
- Related Work: Terence. Eunuchus.
- Related Work: Virgil. Aeneis. Selections
- Related works
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3q23r13b
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs385.html
- Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000280
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 385
- Provenance
- List of names, possibly of former student owners or readers, in a 16th-century hand (inside upper cover).
- Formerly owned by Giovanni Angelo Altemps, duca di Gallese (inscription, f. 3v; gilt spine); Henry Allan (bookplate, Henrici Alani, laid inside upper cover); and Samuel Allan of Liscunnan, Derrock, County Antrim (pencil inscription on Henry Allan bookplate).
- Formerly owned by William A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (leather bookplate, first flyleaf); sold as part of his collection at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 83, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Altemps, Giovanni Angelo, duca di Gallese, -1620, former owner.
- Allan, Henry, former owner.
- Allan, Samuel, former owner.
- Foyle, William A. (William Alfred), 1885-1963, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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