University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 50
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1541
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 50
- Title:
- Statuta sive capitula loci Castini.
- Castino (Italy)
- Place:
- Castino
- Date:
- 1471.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 26 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 244 x 177 (152 x 112) mm bound to 245 x 185 mm
- Note:
- Title from inscription in later hand f. [i] recto and from upper cover.
Binding: 15th-century Italian wooden boards, with two leather straps connecting front to back, one detached. Pastedowns have been loosened (they were from the 11th/12th-century breviary fragment used to wrap the text block). The text block is completely detached from this cover.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment and paper, 26; [iii], 1¹⁰, 2⁸, 3⁶(-2), [iii]; i (11th- or 12th-century parchment) + ii (contemporary paper) + 23 + ii (contemporary paper) + i (11th- or 12th-century parchment); 1-18, 20-23; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a semi-humanistic script, with comments in several different hands; pastedowns written in transitional script (or protogothic script).
Decoration: 6-line initial in purple, green, pink, and blue (f. 1r); coat of arms in green, blue, pink, purple and white (f. 1r); extensive use of red for headings, initials, capitals, and paragraph marks.
Origin: Written in Castino, Italy in 1471 (f. upper cover, [i] recto, [ii] verso).
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Combetti of Turin (Zacour-Hirsch; Fontana).
Formerly owned by the Lib. Antiquaria Bourlot, Turin (bookplate, inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914739263503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3335v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
