University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 65
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1574
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 65
- Title:
- La vita de Sancto Orso.
- Place:
- Vicenza
- Date:
- 1539.
- Language:
- Italian, with colophon in Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 17 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 180 x 122 (140 x 98) mm bound to 186 x 138 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Note:
- Title from prologue (f. 1v).
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Vicenza (colophon, f. 14r) in 1539 (f. 2r).
Binding: Italian vellum over cardboard, with gold-stamped title.
Incipit and explicit: (f. 1v) Nela Provintia de Franza imperante Carlo per cognome magno naque de nobelissi parenti ... (f. 14r) Item si pol tore per vivi et per morti et chi fusse impediti per infirmita overo altro impedimento legittimo mandando [corrected from "mandandando"] per altri consequirano la ditta indulgentia.
Collation: Parchment and paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 14 + i (contemporary paper); 1⁶, 2⁸; [1-14]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a humanistic book script by a single hand.
Decoration: Red, blue and gold used for 4-line illuminated initial and first line (f. 2v). Introduction (f. 1v-2r) in red with one pointed 3-line blue initial and two smaller blue initials.
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillips (no. 6894, inside upper cover).
Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1952. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914739403503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3w939/manifest
- Holding Institution:
