University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 303
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1491
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 303
- Title:
- De la rapina di Proserpina.
- Claudianus, Claudius
- Place:
- Lombardy
- Date:
- [before 1546]
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 72 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 148 (146 x 90) mm bound to 218 x 149 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Middleton, J. J
Middleton, Henry
- Note:
- Inscription at end (f. 68v): 19 ienno [i.e., ianuario?] 1546 Alexandro[?]. Fascoli[?]. The manuscript appears to be 16th century in date, and the inscription on f. 68v indicates that it must have been written before 1546.
Some stains. Ink on some folios worn and rubbed.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Spine title: La rapina di Proserpina.
Heading and incipit of book I (f. 1r): L'ira, l'orgoglio, et i destrieri ardenti del tiranno infernal rapace; e il carro. Onde già di fumoso halito oscuro / Il ciel si sparse, e le superne stelle / ...
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 72 + iii (modern paper); [ii], [1-68], [ii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except for the inscription at the end (f. 68v).
Decoration: Illuminated initials with foliate ornamentation (f. 1r, 17v, 42r).
Binding: Modern boards. Previously bound in 18th-century gilt leather; rebound at some date after Zacour-Hirsch was compiled in 1965.
Edges of book block gilded.
Origin: Written in Lombardy[?] before 1546 (f. 68v, Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by J. J. Middleton (bookplate, inside upper cover); willed by him to Henry Middleton of South Carolina, 1849 (inscription on bookplate, inside upper cover).
Accessioned, 1959. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915809113503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h12v79k/manifest
- Holding Institution:
