University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 665
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1577
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 665
- Title:
- Statutes.
- Ordre de la nef
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1381.
- Language:
- Middle French
- 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:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Ms. codex.
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.
Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.
Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874513503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3k93160m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
