University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 57
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1552
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 57
- Title:
- Statuti del Bosco.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [1493?]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 96 leaves : parchment ; 275 x 207 (196 x 140) mm bound to 272 x 210 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ashburner, Walter, 1864-1936
Civaleri, Pietro, Conte
- Note:
- Collation: I⁴, II-VIII⁵, IX-X⁴, XI¹. There is also one front and one back flyleaf, both paper.
Covers and endpapers show a great deal of worm damage. Cover boards warped. Edges of the first and last few folios split and cracked. Folio [i] missing a large section, with some loss of text.
Title from recto of front flyleaf.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Parchment, i (paper) + 96 + i (paper); [viii], 1-88. There are three sets of folio numbers, all of which begin on the ninth leaf (which is numbered f. 1) and which are all written in the upper right corner of each recto: 1.) contemporary roman numerals; 2.) slightly later arabic numerals; 3.) modern pencil arabic numerals, f. 78-end, correcting errors in the first two foliation...
Layout: Written in 34 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Italian notarial bookhand plus a number of later additions in 17th- and 18th-century hands.
Decoration: Red initials throughout.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1493 (f. 85r). Folios 87v-end contain 17th-century and 18th-century additions.
Binding: Scored calf over cardboard, possibly Italian of the 18th century.
Sold by Libreria Antiquaria Moretti, 1953.
Owned by Conte Pietro Civaleri (inside front cover: "P. Civalerius emit die x Aprilis 1843"). Also has stamp of Walter Ashburner, Firenze (f. [viii]v and f. 88v). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914711853503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rb6w352/manifest
- Holding Institution:
