(Q2941)
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Horsemanship--Equipment and supplies--Early works to 1800
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Horsemanship--Equipment and supplies
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Early works to 1800
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[between 1550 and 1599]
16. century
1550Gregorian
1599
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Germany or Italy and Prague or Austria
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Extent: 2 volumes (46, 31 leaves) : paper ; Volume 1: 436 x 295 mm bound to 445 x 305 mm; Volume 2: 434 x 285 mm bound to 435 x 290 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Origin: Volume 1: drawn in Germany or Italy in the second half of the 16th century with notes added later in Italy; Volume 2: drawn in Prague or Austria (based on watermark) in the second half of the 16th century.
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Binding: Volume 1: parchment over pasteboards with remnants of 2 pairs of green fabric ties, inscription No. 34 in ink on upper cover; Volume 2: half pigskin, blind-rolled and -stamped, over green parchment cut with double-fillet border, with remnants of 4 pairs of green fabric ties.
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Collation: Volume 1: Paper, i + 46 + i; 1¹⁸ 2²⁸; [1-46], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Volume 2: Paper, i + 31; 1-10² 11⁶ 12⁶(-1, pastedown); [1-31] (21-31 blank), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
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Script: Later notes written in cursive script (Volume 1).
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Decoration: Volume 1: approximately 160 line drawings in ink; Volume 2: 37 drawings in ink with elaborate infill and crosshatching, one with watercolor added (f. 16r).
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Watermarks: Volume 1: WM in ornate square frame, 3 crescents of descending size in a horizontal row (similar to Crescents, nos. 138-139, in David Woodward, Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps ca. 1540-1600) and a countermark of HB or IB surmounted by a trefoil (similar to Woodward, Letters, nos. 299-301); Volume 2: similar to Briquet Armoires 2231-2239, arms of the town of...
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Ms. codices.
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Sold by Antiquariat Konrad Meuschel (Bad Honnef am Rhein, Germany) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1999.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
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4 August 2023
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4 August 2023
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