University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 665
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1577
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 665
- Title:
- Statutes
- Ordre de la nef
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1381.
- Language:
- Middle French
- Material:
- parchment, color illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 21 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 323 x 232 (240 x 168) mm bound to 332 x 236 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805
Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.
Foliation: Parchment, 21 + i (paper); [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 40 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: 11-line initial depicting a ship without sails held up by two angels, in red, blues, lavender, brown, and gold. In a colored border at the bottom of the page is the coat of arms of a branch of the Malespina family, surrounded by two angels (f. 1r). Initials in alternating red and blue (f. 1r-9r), two with penwork ornamentation (f. 5r); initials are unfinished in the remainder of...
Binding: 18th-century vellum.
Origin: Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386.
Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874513503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3k93160m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
