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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1431

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1620

Title:

Poems on monastic life

Poetry

Author:

Faucher, Denis, 1487-1562

Denis Faucher Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

TGN

Date:

after 1524

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Latin, with the final poem in Italian (f. 16v)

Latin

WIKIDATA

Italian

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 134 leaves (16 manuscript) : paper, color illustrations ; 147 x 96 (109 x 69) mm bound to 149 x 109 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 16 manuscript leaves; [1-8] (at beginning of volume), [9-16] (at end of volume), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
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).
Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Speculum perfectionis vene[rabilis] Fr[ater] Henrici Hierp ...
Possible ownership inscriptions on first printed leaf: F. Franciscus pradice [?]; Ballesdens.
Sold by Lathrop C. Harper (New York), 1962.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Sixteenth century

Prayers and devotions

codices (bound manuscripts)

Devotional literature

Hybrid books

illuminations (paintings)

Poetry

Prayers

Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint