University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 620

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DS ID:

DS1562

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 620

Title:

De decem praeceptis decalogi.

Author:

Nicholas, of Dinkelsbühl, approximately 1360-1433

Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1459 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with short passages in German

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 200 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (174 x 115) mm bound to 218 x 154 mm

Note:

For the second work, "De fine mundi," there is a note at the end that the work is based on the edition "Impressus per Conradum Zenniger civem Nurmbergensem" [1481] (f. 32v).
Final folio (f. 200) has been torn, with modern repair [text incomplete?].
Origin: Written in Germany[?] between 1459 and 1499.
Title from f. 43r.
Ms. codex.
For the fifth work, "De dilectione dei et proximi," there is a list of the sermons at the end (f. 136r). This manuscript is unusual in that, although it begins with Sermon 6 (Incipit: Circa hoc mandatum de quo praecedenter locuti sumus...) it apparently includes a sermon not found in the majority of copies, Sermon 12, De accidia.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 200 + i (modern paper); [1-42], 25-132, [151-200]; contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a variety of scripts ranging from bastarda to cursive by several hands; scribe who copied von Dinkelsbühl sermons (f. 43r-136r) is identified, (colophon, f. 136r): Per Mathiam p. de Pirnis scripta sunt precepte anno domini MCCCLIX [1459, Pirna in Saxony?].
Decoration: Some rubrics, capitals, initials, and underlining in red; many unfinished intiials. Marginal notes in different hands, some have been cut off in previous binding.
Binding: Modern binding in parchment leaf from a 15th-century manuscript breviary, with ties.
Sold by Illuminations (now Les Enluminures, Chicago), 1996.

Keyword:

sermons

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Poetry

End of the world

Sermons, Latin

Catholic Church

Ten commandments

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Early works

Antichrist

Magic--Religious aspects

Magic--Religious aspects--Christianity

Spirituality--Catholic Church

Criticism and interpretation

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9923576283503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h12v95j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania