University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1604
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1425
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1604
- Title:
- Hymns and prayers.
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [1475-1499?]
- Language:
- Latin with German interlinear glosses and translations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 86 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (150 x 89) mm bound to 219 x 172 mm
- Note:
- Collation: Paper, 86; 1¹²(-1+1) 2-6¹² 7¹⁴; [1-86], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Origin: Manuscript section written in Germany in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines; Latin texts are written on alternate lines with interlinear glosses.
Binding: 16th-century pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over spine and inner half of wooden boards with a pair of metal catches and bases for straps.
Decoration: 2- to 4-line initials and rubrics in red throughout; initials in text touched with red.
Script: Latin written in a Gothic hybrid script and German written in a cursive script, by at least 2 hands (f. 1-72, 73-86).
Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.
Gift of R. D. Jo[hannes?] Heussius to the Jesuit house at Oettingen (Altötting), 1603 (inscriptions on title page of first printed work). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950505223503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jm23j7q/manifest
- Holding Institution:
