University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1520

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DS ID:

DS1391

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1520

Title:

Spiritualis philosophia.

Author:

Johannes, von Kastl, active 15th century

Johannes von Kastl WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1436.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 22 leaves : paper ; 270 x 210 (195 x 120) mm bound to 270 x 210 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Germany(?), in 1436 (f. 20v).
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 22 leaves; [i, 1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. One catchword, mostly trimmed away (f. 8v).
Layout: Written in 39 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, mostly erased, with bounding lines occasionally visible.
Script: Written in a German Gothic cursive script.
Binding: Later boards.
Explicit: [text] ... bona et vera fide integrum in se Ihesu Christo iaceat fundamentum. Amen. [rubric] Explicit tractatus de cognicione sui ipsius editus anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo tricesimo sexto Ihesu Christi ad laudem et gloriam etc. (f. 20v).
Watermark: Briquet Raisin 12992 (Genevè, 1420); f. 21, similar to Briquet Raisin 13074 (Lyon, 1587).
Incipit: [rubric] Incipit spiritualis philosophia de necessaria ac salutari sui ipsius cognitione prae oculis mentis semper habenda et praeferenda ... [text] Cogitanti michi phylosophari de et supra vera profunda ac salubri sui ipsius cognitione ... (f. 1r).
Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin

Mysticism

Christian ethics

Christian life

Early works

Spirituality

History

500-1500

Christian philosophy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9945175613503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pb92/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania