University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 326

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DS ID:

DS1502

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 326

Title:

Encyclopaedia historica et filosophica, latine et italice.

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

[between 1550 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with some Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 394 leaves : paper ; 341 x 233 mm bound to 346 x 235 mm

Note:

Title from title page (front flyleaf recto), written in later pencil; badly faded and difficult to read.
Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the second half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Incipit (f. 2r): ANIMA: Anima est actus primus corporis.
Foliation: Paper, i (former pastedown) + 394 + i (former pastedown); 1-202, [stubs of 203-209], 210, 212, 215-352, 355-372, [stub of 373], 374-375, 377-400; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. On many folios the wearing and fraying of the edges has obliterated the folio numbers. Folios 203-209 and 373 have been cut out, leaving stubs with traces of text. Folio 210 has also become...
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum. Vellum of cover badly split, cracked and worn. Many leaves badly stained; possible water and mildew damage. Many leaves worn and fraying at the edges. Some oxidation of ink.
Forms part of: Macauley collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Accessioned, 1959.

Keyword:

recipes

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

encyclopedias

Manuscripts, Renaissance

dictionaries

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Europe--Holy Roman Empire

Early works

Italy--Venice

Classical dictionaries

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915809523503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3qr4nv91/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania