University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1621

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1432

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1621

Title:

Grecismus Cornutus ... etc..

Place:

Leipzig or Erfurt

Leipzig TGN

Date:

[1475-1507?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with chart of Greek letters and diphthongs (f. 11r)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 15 leaves : paper ; 207 x 153 mm bound to 214 x 163 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 15; [1-15], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; earlier foliation schemes are visible and show that the contents of this volume were once part of a larger work. All sections have finding tabs from when they were in a larger work. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Historia periucunda sanctissime matris Anne.
Title from rubric for manuscript work (f. 12r).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: 2-line red initial (f. 12r); initials at beginning of line slashed with red (f. 12r-13r); breaks in interlinear notes marked with red (f. 12r).
Binding: Modern boards; spine nearly detached.
Origin: Manuscript contents probably written in Leipzig or Erfurt, in the late 15th century, with the annotations to the printed work after its publication in 1507 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1962.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Keyword:

Hybrid books

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

Manuscripts, Latin

Finding tabs

annotations

Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint

Greek language--Grammar

Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Humanism

Early works

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954234623503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32v7w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania