University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 260
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1472
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 260
- Title:
- La vita e ... la conversione del nostro segniore jhesu christo.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [14--]
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 60 leaves : parchment ; 244 x 170 (181 x 123) mm bound to 247 x 174 mm
- Note:
- Incipit: Intra le altre grande vertude che se lezeno de sancta Cecilia vergene sie questa che ella portava sempre lo euangelio de [Christo] abscoso i[n] del suo pecto.... (f. 1r).
Back cover board split, with evidence of a repair attempt; a couple of the nails are loose. Front board securely attached but back board somewhat loose. The leather that covered the spine has almost completely worn away. Parchment stained in places, sometimes badly. Some smudges. Ink mostly clear, but faded on some folios. A few wormholes. Some doodling on f. 60r-v.
Title from heading (f. 1r): Questo libro tracta de la vita e de la conversione del nostro segnioro yhu xpo.
Modern note in orange pencil (inside upper cover): Vita e conversione del nostro Signore.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, 60; 1-7⁸, 8⁴; [1-60]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 37 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a miniscule bookhand by a single hand, except for occasional corrections and additions. The text on f. 60r appears to be in a different hand.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Contemporary half leather over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: 6-line initial with penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); rubricated headings and initials.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1952. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808753503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dv1cp26/manifest
- Holding Institution:
