[Pattern-book of bridles, bits and straps].

Abstract:

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.

Date:

1560

Description:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Identifier:

9948558353503681; (OCoLC)1049386633; (OCoLC)on1049386633; (PU)4855835-penndb-Voyager

Language:

German

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[Upper Saxony], [1560?]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs239.html; http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Horsemanship -- Equipment and supplies -- Early works to 1800.; Bridles -- Early works to 1800.; Horsemanship -- Equipment and supplies.; Animal culture.; Bridles.; Animal culture -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, German -- 16th century.; Paintings (visual works); Codices.; Early works.; Drawings (visual works); Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

175 leaves : paper; 505 x 350 (335 x 245) mm bound to 510 x 360 mm

Personal Name:

Forster, Veit, attributed name.; Fugger, Marcus, 1529-1597, former owner.; Heilbrun, G., former owner.; Dloss, Edwin, former owner.

Corporate Name:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

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.; Origin: Written in Upper Saxony, ca. 1560.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Binding: Blind-stamped pigskin binding dated 1579.; 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.; Ms. codex.; German.

Physical Location:

Oversize LJS 239

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)