University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1560
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1412
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1560
- Title:
- Novum testamentum domini nostri Jesu Christi.
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- [between 1235 and 1270]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 61 leaves : parchment ; 196 x 132 (140 x 92) mm bound to 198 x 148 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Probably written in England in the mid-13th century.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Layout: New Testament written in 2 columns of 63 lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; double horizontal bounding-lines (f. 1v-60v). Metrical digest written in 2 columns of 33-41 lines, written on every other line to leave room for letters and numbers above each line; frame-ruled in faint ink; triple vertical bounding-lines left of left column and quadruple vertical bounding-lines left of right...
Binding: Later vellum, lined with a fragment of a leaf containing Luke 5.17-25, beginning with a 4-line initial in blue flourished with red, from an antiphonary that was written in two columns with rubrics in red and 1-line initials alternating in red and blue.
Foliation: Parchment, 61; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and the first epistle of Peter (f. 9v, 14r, 22r, 45r, 54r); numerous initials, most 1-line, but up to 8-line, in blue flourished with red or red flourished with turquoise; running book titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue characters; rubrics in red; Eusebian letters in metrical digest in...
Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside lower cover), 1966. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9946096373503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ws8hm5q/manifest
- Holding Institution:
