University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 615
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1560
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 615
- Title:
- De planctu naturae
- Alanus, de Insulis, -1202
- Scribe:
- Johannes de Polna
- Place:
- Bohemia
- Date:
- 1365
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 54 leaves : paper ; 299 x 228 (174 x 120) mm bound to 290 x 227 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Stift Admont
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from front cover: Alanus deplanctu naturae.
Foliation: Paper, 54; [1-54], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in the hand of Johannes de Polna (colophon f. 54v).
Decoration: Rubricated, with paragraph markers and capitals stroked in red ink; simple 2-line red initials, one with a grotesque face (f. 24r); several manicules (f. 15r, 21r, 28r, 31r, 42v).
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum; dry and brittle.
Origin: Completed in Bohemia on 22 April 1365 (nearest weekday after Quasimodogeniti, the Octave of Easter, f. 54v).
Formerly held in the library of Stift Admont, the Benedictine monastery in the town of Admont, Styria, Austria (number 478, spine and inside upper cover) (Wichner).
Sold by Stift Admont to antiquarian bookdealer Brecher (Brno, modern Czech Republic) in 1938 (inscription in Wichner 1888 catalog); Z. Stelle f. Denkmalschutz stamp, indicating export license granted by the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt, inside lower cover (Christoph Egger, Institut fuer Oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung).
Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1951. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924864773503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3696zx8s/manifest
- Holding Institution:
