University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1630

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1436

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1630

Title:

Liber rethoricorum /

Place:

Venice?, Italy

Venice TGN

Date:

[between 1440 and 1460]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 130 leaves : parchment ; 120 x 85 (74-76 x 53-55) mm bound to 130 x 98 mm

Note:

Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
Origin: Written in northern Italy, possibly Venice, between 1440 and 1460 (Les Enluminures).
Ms. codex.
Binding: Modern calf, blind-tooled.
Decoration: 4-line initial in blue with red penwork and three-quarter border in red and blue penwork (water-damaged, f. 1r); 3- and 4-line initials, at the beginning of each book, either blue with red penwork or red with blue or purple penwork and marginal extensions (f. 18r, 48v, 73r, 86v, 109r); numerous 2-line initials alternating between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork...
Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 130 + i (modern); 1-13¹⁰; [1-130], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; first recto of each gathering also foliated in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower center.
Layout: Written in 18 long lines; faintly ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in a protohumanistic script.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2013.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin

Rhetoric

Early works

Rhetoric, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958935643503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3w950n50/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania