University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 58

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1554

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 58

Title:

Theologia naturalis.

Author:

Raymond, of Sabunde, -1436

Raymond of Sabunde WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Vischer, Johannes

Johannes Vischer WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1487.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 200 leaves : paper ; 312 x 212 (239 x 145) mm bound to 316 x 220 mm

Note:

Colophon: (p. 397) Explicit liber creaturarum seu nature sive de homine propter quem alie mea tuem parte sunt. Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo septimo. Vicesima octava mensis aprilis per manum Iohannis Vischer [or possibly "vis[c]us"].
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch), completed on 28 April 1487 (p. 397).
Title from front flyleaf (f. [i]r).
Incipit and explicit: (p. 1) Ad laudem et honorem altissime et gloriosissime trinitatis ... (p. 397) Ad que dignetur nos perducere Ihesus Christus Filius Dei rex eterne glorie qui est benedictus in secula seculorum Amen.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 200; [i], 1¹²(-1), 2-7¹², 8-18¹⁰, 19⁸(-2); [i], [1-397]; modern pagination in pencil, lower right recto. Signatures in lower right margin, mostly trimmed away.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 46 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in the hand of Johannes Vischer (p. 397).
Binding: German 15th-century paper incunable leaf over cardboard (Zacour-Hirsch). Text on the incunable leaf appears to be from a copy of Gratian's Decretals, possibly (Goff G-390) Venice, 20 April 1499 or (Goff G-392) Venice, 1 August 1500, both printed by Baptistam de Tortis.
Watermarks: some are similar to Piccard II. xvi. 194/195 (earliest: 1492, Königsberg/Köslin); others are similar to Briquet 14873 (Leipzig, 1483).
Decoration: Red initials and section headings throughout.
Sold by Karl Goldman (Munich), 1953.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Religion--Philosophy

Natural theology

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914739313503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38k74z82/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania