University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 692

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1596

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 692

Title:

De vita christiana

De vita Christiana

Author:

Pseudo-Augustinus

Pseudo-Augustine WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1467.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 12 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (167 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 153 mm

Former Owner(s):

Donatus, Rudolphus Rasser

Rudolphus Rasser Donatus WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 2v: Incipit liber Sancti augustini de vita christiana.
Date from f. 11v: Explicit liber sancti augustini de vita christiana, anno lxvii.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36-38 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script possibly in the hand of Frater Rudolphus Rasser Donatus (inscription, f. 2v-3r).
Decoration: Some use of red for initials and capitals.
Binding: Modern half-vellum.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1467 (f. 11v).
Possible ownership inscription of Frater Rudolphus Rasser Donatus (f. 2v-3r).
Formerly held at the Carthusian monastery in Brixen (f. 2r).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 14 Apr. 1930, lot 112.
Sold by Symmachus, 1953.

Keyword:

Spurious and doubtful works

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Spiritual life--Christianity

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874823503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33545/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania