University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1591
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1421
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1591
- Title:
- Hybrid book of letters of Poliziano, Symmachus, and Laudinus
- Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494
- Date:
- [circa 1511-1514]
- Language:
- Latin, with a few words in Greek in notes and passages in Greek in printed text
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 208 leaves : paper ; bound to 219 x 155 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schennis, Friederich de, 1852-1918
Cuntius, Leonhardus
Jahn, Otto, 1813-1869
- Note:
- Foliation: Paper, ii + 208 + iii; [1-208]; contemporary foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Origin: Manuscript letters copied ca. 1511 (f. 125v); annotations on last work dated 1512 (f. 208v); and first work annotated in or after 1514 (publication date).
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards with a clasp; Politianus Sym[m]achus written on spine in ink in early hand.
Decoration: Underlining in red ink; initials touched with red ink; rubrication in red ink in manuscript letters; annotation in red ink except in Symmachus, including numerous manicules in manuscript letters; 2 later, more elaborate manicules (f. 44v, 77r).
Script: Manuscript letters written in Gothic cursive script.
Layout: Manuscript letters written in 27-33 long lines and frame-ruled in red ink.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Formerly owned by Friederich de Schennis (armorial ex libris stamp inside upper cover, on second flyleaf, f. 125v, f. 153r).
Purchased, 1952; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.
Early ownership inscription (jure me possidet Leonhardus Cuntius , f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Otto Jahn (bookplate inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949907663503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xd0r08g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
