Manuscript Monday: LJS 431 – Manuscript list of manuscript and printed books (Video Orientation)

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 431, a list of 33 works; at least 13 entries include publication information such as city of publication, printer, or date of publication; publishers include Robert Estienne of Paris and Joannes Oporinus and Robert Winter of Basel; dates range from 1530 to 1543. Most of the works are by classical authors, with several noted to be translations. The list is written in italic script on a single leaf removed from a larger volume, possibly foliated 136. 2 entries, for a book printed in 1509 by Aldo Manuzio and a book printed by Chrestien Wechel, added at the end in the hand of Spanish bibliographer Juan Páez de Castro (Kraus). Written circa 1545.

Video orientation to LJS 431

Digital copies and a full record are available through Franklin. Record on Internet Archive with link to PDF.

1 Comment

  1. Hello Dot,

    Thanks for your last presentation of the Library’s LJS 431, a list of 33 works. Do you have any typed version of these two pages?

    Best regards,

    Mostafa

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