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

Letters

Author:

Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494

Agnolo Poliziano WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1511-1514

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with a few words in Greek in notes and passages in Greek in printed text

Latin WIKIDATA

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 208 leaves : paper ; bound to 219 x 155 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cuntius, Leonhardus

Leonhardus Cuntius WIKIDATA

Jahn, Otto, 1813-1869

Otto Jahn WIKIDATA

Schennis, Friederich de, 1852-1918

Friedrich von Schennis WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii + 208 + iii; [1-208]; contemporary foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Manuscript letters written in 27-33 long lines and frame-ruled in red ink.
Script: Manuscript letters written in Gothic cursive script.
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).
Binding: Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards with a clasp; Politianus Sym[m]achus written on spine in ink in early hand.
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).
Early ownership inscription (jure me possidet Leonhardus Cuntius , f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Otto Jahn (bookplate inside upper cover).
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.

Keyword:

annotations

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Sixteenth century

Hybrid books

Italy

Humanism

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949907663503681

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3xd0r08g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania