University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 693

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1597

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 693

Title:

Duo dialogi de philosophia morali.

Author:

Decembrius, Umbertus

Umbertus Decembrius WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1450?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 143 (126 x 94) mm bound to 203 x 139 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Note in second hand: Questo libro sia dato ad nostro patre domino Facino de Sanctopetro in Portanova ne la perochia de Sancto Victore...(f. 64v).
Origin: Written in northern Italy[?], ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Incipit: Veritas vim sepenumero cogitanti nichil ea plerumque facilius... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 64 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], [1-64], [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: 16th-century green vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r, 32v); 2-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 3r); alternating red or blue paragraph marks throughout.
Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1954.
Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 33.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

dialogues

Ethics

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874833503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3t727j53/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania