University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 64
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1567
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 64
- Title:
- Forme romane curie super beneficiis et questionibus... etc..
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [between 1250 and 1350]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 104 leaves : parchment ; 217 x 152 (156 x 109) mm bound to 228 x 156 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
- Note:
- First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 8r) In litteris indulgentie videlicet, quoniam ut ait apostolus, et similium super ponatur de questionariis ... (f. 79r) et de dampnis et iniuriis eisdem irrogant[?] satisfaciant competenter monitione premissa.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy, in the late 13th or early 14th century. Zacour-Hirsch suggests ca. 1290.
Binding: 19th- or early 20th-century three-quarter calf with marbled paper, over cardboard. Paper endleaf is loose, leather of cover wearing around the edges; leather almost completely split and separated along both front and back hinges; cover boards becoming loose at hinges; spine is starting to crumble and split.
Two leaves have been cut out between f. 7-8, and between f. 28-29.
Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 80v) Abbati cavensi. Cum monasterii vestri veneranda religio virtutum debeat candore nitere convenit ... (f. 104r) Presumptores predictos ad examen eiusdem archiepiscopi remittatis.
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 104 + i (modern paper); 1⁴(-1), 2⁶, 3⁶(-1), 4-7⁶, 8⁷, 9⁶; first work (f. 8-79) with contemporary foliation (added by the rubricator, following indications made by the scribe), 1-73 in red Roman numerals, upper center (each verso has the same number as the following recto, i.e. facing pages are given the same number); modern foliation in pencil, upper...
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 50 lines; prickings visible.
Script: Written in an Italian Gothic textualis script.
Decoration: Red and blue initials throughout, some with filigree; small blue and red drawing of a face (f. 79r); rubrication in red.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 8r); spine title: Forme romane curie.
Purchased by Henry Charles Lea in 1892 (Lea signature dated 1892, flyleaf 2 recto; bookplate, inside upper cover).
Purchased by Albert Cohn (book dealer, Berlin) in Italy, 1889 (according to Lea in A formulary of the papal penitentiary ..., p. xxxvii); the catalog clipping pasted in the manuscript, no. 957, is likely from a Cohn catalog in 1891 (flyleaf 2 recto, with pencil note of date below).
Bequest of Henry Charles Lea to the University of Pennsylvania, 1909. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914739383503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32f7js2n/manifest
- Holding Institution:
