University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 434

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1528

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 434

Title:

Legenda aurea.

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Jacobus de Voragine WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1459.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 154 leaves : paper ; 228 x 155 (188 x 115) mm bound to 235 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944

Giuseppe Martini WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no title page.
Incipit: Questa e la tavola...(f. 1r); Questo sono i sermoni dell'avento di Christo e poi drie segue le legende di sancti de la corte di Roma...[Text:] Tutto il tempo della vita presente se destingue in quatro...(f. 5r).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 154 + i (modern paper); [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; older foliation partly cut off in binding.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 49 lines; ruled in ink with vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in cursive humanist script.
Decoration: Initials in red and blue with penwork decorations.
Binding: Half calf; upper and lower cover detached.
Origin: Written in Italy, April 19, 1459 (f. 154v).
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, circa 1948.
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 91.
Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1963.
S. Maria Angelorum, Ferrara.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Italian literature

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924866043503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32805089/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania