University of Pennsylvania, LJS 23
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS120
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 23
- Title:
- De natura rerum
- Thomas, de Cantimpré, approximately 1200-approximately 1270
- Place:
- France or Flanders
- Date:
- between 1250 and 1275
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 56 leaves : parchment ; 184 x 132 (138 x 105) mm bound to 185 x 138 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Gorman, Pierre Patrick, 1924-
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 56 + iii (modern paper) leaves; 1-28 310 410(-1) 512 610(-9); [1-112] ; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. A few catchwords are visible (p. 16, 70); most have been cropped. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 31 lines; ruled in faint ink; prickings visible on many leaves.
Script: Written in Gothic book and Gothic cursive script, by several hands.
Decoration: 8-line inhabited initial with dragon and marginal extensions (p. 95); 8-line and 9-line inhabited initial with dragons (p. 56, 80); 8-line and 9-line initial in red, brown, pink, green, and blue (p. 39, 60); 3- and 4-line initials alternating between red and blue with contrasting penwork; rubrication and running headings in red; capitals touched with red in most of the manuscript...
Binding: Modern paper.
Origin: Written in Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1250-1275.
Transcription, in same modern German hand as notes on front flyleaves and bound in same modern paper binding, boxed with manuscript.
Formerly in a private collection in Iceland; formerly owned by Pierre Patrick Gorman and sold in 1994.
Sold by Sam Fogg, cat. 16 (1995), no. 57, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9947469813503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p38040/manifest
- Holding Institution:
