University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 687

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1591

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 687

Title:

Rule.

Author:

Augustinians

Augustinians WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with French translation

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in northeast France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
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.
Binding: 18th-century calf. Spine is cracked along front cover, which is nearly detached.
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.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.
Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.
Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh (flyleaf, iii recto).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French

illuminations (paintings)

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874753503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34g4k/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania