University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 340
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1511
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 340
- Title:
- Passion of Christ and apocryphal stories, including translations from the Nicodemus Gospel.
- Place:
- Lombardy
- Date:
- [between 1450 and 1499]
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- paper.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 69 leaves : paper. ; 290 x 210 (180 x 110) mm bound to 297 x 207 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
This text is apparently unpublished.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit (f. 1r): Aprosimando la festa de la pasqua ...
Blank folio at beginning and several folios at end appear to be missing. This manuscript was once part of a larger volume.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 69 + i (modern paper); 48-116; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in the Library.
Script: Written in a single cultivated humanist hand. A few notes on f. 69v in a later hand.
Decoration: Red and blue used for initials; red used for heading on f. 1r.
Binding: Modern half vellum.
Origin: Written in northern Italy (Venetian territory) in the second half of the 15th century (notes of bookseller H. P. Kraus). Zacour-Hirsch places the origin in Lombardy.
Some leaves soft and fragile; edges worn and fraying. Leaves stained. Various smudges. Some red and blue initials wearing through the paper.
Layout: Written in 33 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H. P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 208.
Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1960. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915809713503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3fb4wm76/manifest
- Holding Institution:
