University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 687

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1591

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 687

Title:

Rule

Rules

Author:

Augustinians

Augustinians WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with French translation

Latin WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 28 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 162 x 118 (125 x 80) mm bound to 167 x 121 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit regula Sancti Augustini (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, iii (18th-century paper) + 28 + vii (18th-century paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.
Decoration: Illuminated initial A in gold, green, and pink (f. 1r); 2-line initials colored in green, blue, and pink throughout; red ink used for translations.
Binding: 18th-century calf. Spine is cracked along front cover, which is nearly detached.
Origin: Written in northeast France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh (flyleaf, iii recto).
Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules

Monasticism and religious orders

Rules

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874753503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34g4k/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania