University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 313

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1495

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 313

Title:

Miscellany of theological and devotional works.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with first item and some titles in Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 38 leaves : paper ; 145 x 105 (101 x 67) mm bound to 149 x 106 mm

Former Owner(s):

Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914

Hermann Suchier WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Bookseller's note in Italian (inside upper cover).
Cover worn and splitting, especially at spine. Leaves badly stained, possibly due to water damage. Writing faded in places.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, vi (modern paper) + 38 + vi (modern paper); 2-12, [ii], 21-45; near contemporary foliation, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto and lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 38 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written a cursive script by more than one hand; some of the sections include interlinear and marginal corrections, comments, glosses, etc.
Decoration: First work contains rubricated headings, numbers, and initials.
Binding: 19th-century[?] paper boards.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

anthologies

hagiographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Bible

Theology, Doctrinal

Christian saints in literature

Hagiography in literature

Early works

Catholic Church

Spirituality--Catholic Church

Devotional literature, Italian

Christian hagiography

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924864533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rp94/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania