University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1603
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1424
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1603
- Title:
- Gathering from glossed Second Corinthians
- Place:
- Paris
- Date:
- 1210?
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 6 leaves : parchment ; 352 x 256 (242 x 150) mm bound to 361 x 265 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Sankt Johannes Baptist (Rebdorf, Germany)
Schøyen Collection
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 16; 103-108, modern pencil foliation, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 55 lines of gloss (main text, where present, written in a larger script on alternate lines spanning half a column), with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script, in a larger size for main text and a smaller size for the gloss.
Decoration: Running title S[e]c[un]da ad Co[rinthios] in red and blue; numerous 1- to 4-line initials alternating in red and blue ink with contrasting penwork flourishes that extend into the left margins; lemmas in gloss underlined in red.
Binding: Modern half calf with marbled paper (Benson's Hand Bindery, Columbia, S.C.).
Origin: Written in northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1210 (King Alfred's Notebook).
Other leaves have appeared in Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages VIII (2007), no 95; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 1 and again 7 July 2015, lot 8; Bloomsbury, 6 July 2017, lot 10; 2 July 2019, lot 13 and 6 July 2021, lot 41; Christie's, 14 December 2022, lot 4. A bifolium with two large gold initial 'P's is in the Scheetz collection (S. Gwara, Bibliotheca Scheetziana, 2014, no 17, pp. 109-18.
Parent manuscript has been described as from the medieval library of the Augustinian abbey of Rebdorf (Christie's).
Parent manuscript offered for sale at auction at Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus F. Zisska & R. Kistner (Munich), 3 May 1988, lot 1 (Christie's).
Parent manuscript formerly held in the Schøyen Collection, MS 124 (Christie's).
Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 June 2003, lot 82, to Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Markkleeberg, Germany); manuscript disbound and gathering sold by Antiquariat Neumann-Walter (Scott Gwara).
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950373063503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3b351/manifest
- Holding Institution:
