University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 17
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1445
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 17
- Title:
- De spiritu et anima ... etc..
- Scribe:
- Gaspar
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1463.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 146 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 163 x 110 (107 x 61) mm bound to 174 x 116 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Drury, Henry, 1778-1841
- Note:
- Incipit (2nd work): Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus ... (f. 58r).
Origin: Written in Italy 13 September, 1463 (f. 143v)
Title and attribution to St. Augustine (Divus Augustus) taken from inside front flyleaf and from spine.
Incipit (1st work): Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum ... (f. 1r).
Explicit (1st work): ... aliud non sit quae ratio. (f. 56v). This explicit is characteristic of Norpoth's "Type I" of the text (Norpoth, p. 7). Contains chapters 1-33 only (out of 65).
Binding: 15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; rebacked in the 19th century; joints worn with red rot.
Explicit (2nd work): ... omnis beatitudo: omnis clementia sit deo patri et spiritui sancto. amen. (f. 143v).
Collation: i (contemporary parchment) + 144 + i (contemporary parchment); 1-6⁸, 7-9¹⁰, 10⁸, 11-16¹⁰; [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand. Scribe identifies himself as Gaspar on f. 56v and 143v.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in gold, blue, green, red and white (f. 1r, 58r); marginalia and section headings in red.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's to Henry Drury, 26 Feb. 1821, lot 37.
Sold by Drury at auction at R. H. Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 270.
Sold by William Allen, 1955. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914707273503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bv79w93/manifest
- Holding Institution:
