University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1603
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1424
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1603
- Title:
- Gathering from glossed Second Corinthians.
- Place:
- Paris
- Date:
- [1210?]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 6 leaves : parchment ; 352 x 256 (242 x 150) mm bound to 361 x 265 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern France, probably Paris, ca. 1210 (King Alfred's Notebook).
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; 103-108, modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
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.
Binding: Modern half calf with marbled paper (Benson's Hand Bindery, Columbia, S.C.).
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.
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2011.
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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950373063503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3b351/manifest
- Holding Institution:
