University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 20

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DS ID:

DS1454

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 20

Title:

Summa dictaminis ...etc..

Author:

Thomas, de Capua, Cardinal, -1243

Thomas of Capua WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[13--]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 168 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 285 x 210 mm bound to 301 x 219 mm

Note:

Erasure (p. 172) may be a colophon for the first text.
Quires 14 (p. 205-220) and 16 (p. 237-252) are palimpsests. The lower text was written on an orientation perpendicular to the second text. The lower text appears to have been documentary in nature.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century.
Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1).
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 168 + ii (modern paper); 1-9⁸, 10⁸(+4), 11⁴, 12-21⁸; [1-332]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by many different hands.
Decoration: Contains blue and red initials throughout, some with green filigree; charts and diagrams throughout Bondi's works.
Binding: 19th-century Russian calfskin over pasteboard, botanical rollstamp border, possibly German (Melk?).
Ms. codex.
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1954.
Appears in E. P. Goldschmidt's catalog 44 (1937), no. 20.
Formerly in the collection of the Stiftsbibliothek, Melk (stamp, front flyleaf, p. 1, 332; note, p. 1).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

treatises

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Rhetoric--Study and teaching

500-1500

Latin language, Medieval and modern

Latin language, Medieval and modern--Rhetoric

Rhetoric, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914691763503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3z60c352/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania