University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1620
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1431
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1620
- Title:
- Poems on monastic life.
- Faucher, Denis, 1487-1562
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [after 1524]
- Language:
- Latin, with the final poem in Italian (f. 16v)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 134 leaves (16 manuscript) : paper, color illustrations ; 147 x 96 (109 x 69) mm bound to 149 x 109 mm
- Note:
- Foliation: Paper, 16 manuscript leaves; [1-8] (at beginning of volume), [9-16] (at end of volume), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Speculum perfectionis vene[rabilis] Fr[ater] Henrici Hierp ...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 17-20 long lines or lines of verse, with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, with the last poem written in a humanistic cursive or italic script (f. 16v).
Decoration: Full-page illumination of a nun on the cross above a 4-line verse titled Ad scholasticam (f. 1r) and an illumination of a skull surrounded by bones and flowers (f. 3r), both surrounded by text passages on scrolls; rubrication in red; paragraph marks in red or blue and 1- or 2-line initials in red or blue.
Binding: 17th- or 18th-century morocco, gilt spine.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch) after 1524, the date of the printed edition; probably between 1530 and 1550 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Possible ownership inscriptions on first printed leaf: F. Franciscus pradice [?]; Ballesdens.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
Sold by Lathrop C. Harper (New York), 1962. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954234603503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rz9w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
