University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 684

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1588

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 684

Title:

Meditationes /

Author:

Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468

Juan de Torquemada WIKIDATA

Illuminations

Place:

Rome

Rome TGN

Date:

1469.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 27 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 273 x 202 (205 x 146) mm bound to 281 x 205 mm

Note:

Date from colophon, based on printed colophon with revised date (f. 27r): Ffinite sunt contemplaciones supradictae et continuatae Romae per Ulricum Han [Ulrich Han, printer in Rome] anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo nono die ultima mensis octobris.
Origin: Written in 1469 (f. 27r).
Title and attribution from f. 1r.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled in ink and drypoint.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand. Marginal notes indicating topics of meditations in a second hand.
Decoration: Foliate borders and initials in blue, white, green, pink, brown, and gold (f. 1r, 2r, 4v, 5r, 6r), with some unfinished. Spaces left for initials and decoration in the remainder of the volume; guide letters visible; rubricated heading (f. 1r).
Binding: Modern half-vellum.
Worm hole damage to pages.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1953.

Keyword:

Illuminations

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Prayers

codices (bound manuscripts)

Devotional literature

Prayers and devotions

Meditations

Catholic Church

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874713503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3h29r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania