University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1618

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DS ID:

DS1429

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1618

Title:

Annotated copy of Terence's works.

Author:

Terence

Terence WIKIDATA

Place:

Leipzig

Leipzig TGN

Date:

[after 1512]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with a few notes in German

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 108 leaves : paper ; 278 x 190 mm bound to 285 x 211 mm

Former Owner(s):

Olinger, Jean Jules, 1883-1956

Jean Jules Olinger WIKIDATA

Hybrid books

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Pub. Terentij comici nobilissimi sex: q[uae] exta[n]t: fabul[ae].
Ms. codex.
Origin: Probably written in Leipzig, soon after the publication of the printed work in June 1512 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Later parchment.
Decoration: Underlining of short passages of printed text in red, green, or blue ink in a section from the end of Eunuchus into the beginning of Adelphi (f. 38r-57r); marginal notes in red ink in Eunuchus (f. 25r-35v); initials touched with red on one page (f. 38v) ; various manicules throughout.
Collation: Paper, 108; 1-18⁶; gatherings have printed signatures A-I, K-S; [1-108], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Annotations written in Gothic cursive with some notes in a calligraphic script, in multiple hands.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Formerly owned by Jean Jules Olinger (armorial bookplate inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Hybrid books

codices (bound manuscripts)

plays (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

annotations

Humanism

Latin drama (Comedy)

Early works

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954146533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3513v25p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania