University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 329

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1504

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 329

Title:

Declaratorio sopra la regola del padre nostro sancto Benedetto ... etc..

Author:

Benedictines

Benedictines WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1500 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with a short work in Latin (f. 26r-30v)

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 31 leaves : paper ; 211 x 157 (145 x 102) mm bound to 216 x 160 mm

Note:

Binding: Modern paper boards. Cover worn. All leaves badly stained, apparently due to water damage. Some leaves show evidence of repairs. Edges of some leaves worn and frayed. Writing faded in places. Later marginalia show some oxidation of ink.
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 31 + i (modern paper); [1-31]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a single bookhand. Also includes occasional marginal notes, etc. in a later hand.
Decoration: 3-line initial in blue (f. 1r), alternating red or blue 2-line initials throughout; extensive rubrication for headings, etc.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

commentaries

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Early works

Regula (Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino)

Novitiate

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Rules

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915809593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n58n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania