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.

Bible

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

[between 1235 and 1270]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

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

Gordon A. Block Junior WIKIDATA

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:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Bibles

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:

University of Pennsylvania