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
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 208 leaves : paper ; bound to 219 x 155 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cuntius, Leonhardus
Jahn, Otto, 1813-1869
Schennis, Friederich de, 1852-1918
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949907663503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3xd0r08g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
