Penn Library's LJS 168 - Theseus Christianus peregrinatur cum Phirithoo... (Video Orientation)

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Penn Library's LJS 168 - Theseus Christianus peregrinatur cum Phirithoo... (Video Orientation)

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Interdisciplinary Centers, Units and Projects::Penn Libraries::The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts::Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS)::Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): Videos

Discipline

Arts and Humanities

Subject

Latin
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.
codices (bound manuscripts)
dialogues
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

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mp4

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright date

2025

Abstract

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 168, a 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.

Possibly written in Italy, ca. 1694 (latest events described, f. 1v).

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