University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 255

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DS ID:

DS1468

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 255

Title:

Italian religious miscellany.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1464- ca. 1473]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 94 leaves : paper ; 283 x 201 (207 x 150) mm bound to 292 x 202 mm

Former Owner(s):

Monastero di Santo Spirito (Verona, Italy)

Monastero di Santo Spirito in Verona WIKIDATA

Hagiographies (works)

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Traces of a near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, based on orthography and early provenance in Verona (f. 94v), in 1464 (f.1r) and mostly in 1473 or later (f. 2r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards; five brass bosses on each cover (one missing, upper cover, lower left corner); two clasps and catches, engraved and stamped IHS. Spine splitting. A few wormholes. Various stains and smudges.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead and ink.
Decoration: 5-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 2r, 65r), 2-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 84), rubrics in red, with alternating red and blue initials, and capitals and Gothic incipits touched with yellow; manicule (f. 63r).
Script: Written in a formal book script (f. 1r-1v) by one hand that breaks off abruptly, with the text beginning again in a later semi-cursive humanistic script by a second hand. Works 2-6 begin with a few words in a larger, Gothic script. The sixth work has many corrections in another hand.
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 542 (1930), no. 180a, and catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 239.
Formerly owned by the Monastero di Santo Spirito of Verona (inscription, f. 94v).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.

Keyword:

Hagiographies (works)

Legends

codices (bound manuscripts)

Poems

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Italian literature

Italian poetry

Religious poetry, Italian

Devotional literature

Christian saints in literature

Fifteenth century

To 1500

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808633503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3td9n90w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania