University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 331

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DS ID:

DS1505

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 331

Title:

Miracoli e leggende.

Place:

Tuscany

Tuscany TGN

Date:

[between 1425 and 1450]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, in the Tuscan dialect

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 61 leaves : paper ; 281 x 195 (203 x 155) mm bound to 290 x 200 mm

Former Owner(s):

Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914

Hermann Suchier WIKIDATA

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944

Giuseppe Martini WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in the second quarter of the 15th century, probably in Tuscany (Zacour-Hirsch).
On file in the Library: three leaves of notes in the hand of G. Martini; bookseller's description on the stationery of H. P. Kraus (used in part for the item description in the present record).
Paper stained and fragile. Some smudges. Edges of leaves frayed and worn; a few tears. Evidence of later repairs to the edges of some leaves. A few wormholes. Binding solid; cover shows only slight wear.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Titles of individual items from headings, and from Zacour-Hirsch.
Binding: Modern marbled paper over boards.
Script: Written in mercantesca script, probably by a single hand.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36 lines; royal quarto format.
Collation: Paper, i (modern) + 61 + i (modern); 1-6¹⁰ followed by the first leaf of a missing quire; early foliation in ink, 12-72, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, 1-61, upper right recto. Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower center last verso. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Decoration: Red and blue initials. First initial (f. 1r) has red pen-drawn filigree ornamentation. Red used for headings.
Watermarks: Similar to Briquet, Lettre T 9127 (Naples, 1444).
Ms. codex.
Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 127.
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, ca. 1948.
Sold by Kraus, 1960[?].
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (in Halle; bookplate, inside front cover), and Giuseppe Martini.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

anthologies

hagiographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Italian literature

Catholic Church

Christian saints in literature

Devotional literature, Italian

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Fifteenth century

Hagiography in literature

Christian hagiography

To 1400

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915809303503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p31g0hv6f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania