University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 366

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1520

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 366

Title:

Sette salmi penitenziali] ... [etc.

Penitential Psalms

Place:

Tuscany?, Italy

Tuscany TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

circa 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 42 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 160 x 102 (114 x 55) mm bound to 175 x 110 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Titles supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment, i (parchment pasted to modern paper) + i (parchment) + 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 24 long lines; ruled in drypoint and ink.
Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Historiated illuminated initial with King David and illuminated foliate border (f. 1r); illuminated initials throughout; red used for headings and initials.
Binding: 18th- or 19th-century velvet over boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1460 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 44 (1948), no. 38a.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Connecticut), 1961.
Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1961.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Poetry

illuminations (paintings)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Friendship

Early works

Italian literature

Italian poetry

Exile (Punishment) in literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915810093503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3bw1f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania