University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 60
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1557
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 60
- Title:
- De descriptione terre sancte ... etc..
- Burchard, of Mount Sion, -1285
- Scribe:
- Peregrinus, de Sancto Vito
- Place:
- Bologna
- Date:
- [between 1350 and 1450]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 58 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 252 x 186 (168 x 124) mm bound to 259 x 194 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
The ink is flaking and wearing away throughout the manuscript, but especially in the first work.
Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r). Title on cover: De geographia. Title as given in Zacour-Hirsch: Viridica Terrae Sanctae ... descriptio. Titles of the other works are taken from caption titles at the beginning of each work.
1st work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Cum in veteribus ystoriis legimus sicut dicit ... (f. 42v) primo deus secundo parentes tertio filii diligendi sunt.
2nd work, incipit and explicit: (f. 42v) Ad perficiendum quod nullus sit ausus transferare in terris ... (f. 49v) Unde videtur quod Bibar Sinicher abstulerit dominium Soldanatici cheyri et Babilonis cuius rei causa divisio est inter Amiralios. Deo gracias.
2nd work, colophon: (f. 49v) Explicit conscilium domini Marini Sanudi de terra sancta. et cetera. Ego Peregrinus de sancto vito praedictum librum exemplavi a libro domini Archiepiscopi Ravennae.
3rd work, incipit and explicit: (f. 49v) Mens tua terrenis non inhereat ... Quicquid dies hominis sumus et umbra sumus.
4th work, incipit and explicit: (f. 50r) Quicquid agas ratio consulta preambulet actum ... nona tegit solem prima neccat ultima prolem.
5th work, incipit and explicit: (f. 51r) Erat olim in partibus aquilonis homo ... (f. 56v) ut per exemplum Albani tui servi tui mereamur et nos cum eo a nostris facinoribus ablui et super nivem de albari. Amen.
Collation: Parchment, i (17th-century paper) + 58 + i (17th-century paper); 1-5¹⁰, 6⁸; [1-58]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. There are also traces of a previous foliation, partially erased, in 16th-century arabic numerals, upper right recto, 47-104.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in an Italian Gothic script; second work (f. 42v-49v) in the hand of Peregrinus de Sancto Vito (f. 49v).
Binding: 17th-century Italian paper over pasteboards.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Decoration: 2-line initials in red with purple filigree and blue with red filigree; rubricated headings; 5-line decorated initial in red, blue, yellow, green, pink and white (f. 1r); 4-line decorated initial in red, blue, pink and white (f. 51r).
Stamp with initials "P.F." (front flyleaf recto and f. 58v); traces of earlier ownership notation, "L.S.M."? (f. 58v).
Sold by Hoepli, 1953. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914739373503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xs5jh6f/manifest
- Holding Institution:
