University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 685

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1589

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 685

Title:

Renaissance miscellany.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1500?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 233 x 164 (147 x 101) mm bound to 237 x 172 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500. Leaf with date 1466 (f. 48r) is a later replacement.
Binding: Green vellum.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in red, green, blue, pink and gold (f. 1r, 33v, 62r); initials in red or blue.
Script: Written in 2 humanistic hands, items 1-3 in first hand; item 4 in a second hand, with headings and marginal notations in several later hands, in Latin and Italian.
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution for item 1 in a different hand from text (f. 1r).
Item 2 heading (f. 33v): Leonardi Aretini prefatio in libro Basilii Magni Greci incipit feliciter.
Item 3 heading (f. 48r, later addition): Leonardus Aretinus illustri D.D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.
Item 4 heading (f. 62r): Prestantissimi viri Leonardi Aretini Isagogicon moralis disciplinae galeotum ricasolanum feliciter incipit, f. 62r, in a different hand from the text.
Foliation: Paper; i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); [1-77]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines (Items 1-3) and 27 long lines (Item 4); ruled in drypoint.
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1951.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Education

Early works

Ethics

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3g15tb9b/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania