Theseus Christianus peregrinatur cum Phirithoo per aliquot Europae regiones

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1687

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

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.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs168.html

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); dialogues; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

170 leaves : paper; 201 x 158 (160 x 105) mm bound to 209 x 182 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.4v-16v: Ingressus ad totum itinerarium.; Table of contents: 2. f.17r-86r: Trames primus ducens ex Helvetia in Brisgoiam.; Table of contents: 3. f.86v-155r: Trames secundus ducens ex Helvetia in Sueviam, anno Domini 1688 mense Julio.; Table of contents: 4. f.156r-166v: Trames tertius ducens ex Helvetia in Austriam, anno Domini 1691 mense Januario, reassumptus 1693.; 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); Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 168

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)