University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1629
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1434
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1629
- Title:
- Commentaria ad Rhetoricam Ciceronis.
- Scribe:
- Perutii, Monterillus, 14th century
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1342.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 52 leaves : parchment ; 278-289 x 205 (223-235 x 157-167) mm bound to 295 x 213 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Foyle, William A. 1885-1963
Cosson, Charles Alexander, baron de
Cosson, Claude Augustin, baron de, 1877-
San Giovanni e Paolo (Church : Venice, Italy)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, perhaps Venice or Bologna (Les Enluminures), in 1342 (colophon, f. 34v).
Title from inscription added in lower margin of first page in an early modern hand (f. 1r); commentary also known as Plena et perfecta, from its incipit (f. 1r).
Script: Written in Gothic script by at least 2 hands, one that of Monterillus Perutii (Peruzzi?; colophon, f. 34v; new hand begins, f. 35r), with marginal notes in additional hands.
Binding: 19th-century limp parchment (Les Enluminures); the parchment flyleaves are probably from the original binding.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 58 to 71 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + i (14th-century parchment) + 52 + i (14th-century parchment) + ii (modern paper); 1¹² 2¹⁰ 3¹² 4⁸ 5¹⁰; 1-52, early modern foliation in ink, upper right recto. Gatherings signed 1-4, 6, in roman numerals, upper center first recto (f. 1r, 13r, 23r, 35r, 43r); contemporary gathering (letter) and leaf (arabic numeral) signatures faintly visible on many...
Incipit: Plena et perfecta locutio triplici comparatur adminiculo (f. 1r); explicit: ... dudum ipse et hospites sui sederent (f. 52v).
Decoration: 14-line initial in red ink, with red infill and black penwork (f. 1r); 2-line initials, underlining of lemmata, and paragraph marks in red throughout; some initials in marginal notes touched with red; occasional manicules (for example, f. 1r, 1v, 5v).
Formerly owned by William A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey, Essex; leather bookplate inside upper cover).
Possible ownership inscription: Bertholinus, written by a 14th- or 15th-century hand on the possible original binding (parchment flyleaf following text, verso).
Sold by the Dominican convent of San Giovanni e Paolo to Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson (1846-1929) in 1876 (armorial bookplate inside upper cover; note on first flyleaf); later owned by his son, Baron Claude Augustin de Cosson.
Sold at auction as part of Foyle's collection at Christie's, 11 July 2000, lot 78.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2012.
Formerly owned by the Dominican convent of San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (note dated 1876, first flyleaf).
Sold at auction as property of the late C. A. de Cosson at Sotheby's, 27 Mar. 1950, lot 30, to William A. Foyle (catalog description, first flyleaf). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958752123503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n29pb2q/manifest
- Holding Institution:
