[Annotated copy of Tacitus' Germania]

Name:

Freisleben, Leonhard, active 1523-1540; Tacitus, Cornelius

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; To 843

Date:

1509

Description:

Printed edition of Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie ... (Leipzig: Melchior Lotters, 1509) with extensive interlinear and marginal annotations by Freisleben and sparser underlining and annotations in the red ink of the Trochopolitanus signature.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Early ownership inscription: L. Trochopolitanus (first name erased, f. 8r).; Formerly owned by Mary Augusta Elton (bookplate inside upper cover).; Gift of Orville H. Bullitt, 1965.; Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.; Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914, former owner.; Bullitt, Orville H. 1894-1979, donor.

Subject:

Germanic peoples -- History -- Early works to 1800; Humanism -- Germany; Humanism; Germanic peoples; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Annotations; Histories; Hybrid books; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

26 leaves : paper; 209 x 145 mm bound to 215 x 160 mm

Geographic Subject:

Germany -- History -- To 843; Germany

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: ii (modern paper) + 26 + ii (modern paper); 1-3⁶ 4⁸; gatherings signed A-D; [1-26], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: Annotations written in Gothic cursive script by Leonhard Freisleben (signature, f. 26r) and by L. Trochopolitanus in red ink (signature, f. 8r).; Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather by Charles Winstanley, Manchester (stamp, first flyleaf).; Origin: Probably written in Leipzig, soon after the publication of the printed work in 1509 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Cornelii Taciti illustrissimi hystorici de situ, moribus, et populis Germanie, aureus libellus ...; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1617