University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 702

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DS ID:

DS1607

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 702

Title:

Ad invictissimum Maximilianum II, el. Rom[anum] Imperatorem Augustum; Pro fide catholica, de non concedenda Confessione Augustana

Orations

Author:

Tancredius, Ptolemaeus

Ptolemaeus Tancredius WIKIDATA

Place:

Prague

Prague TGN

Date:

1570.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 53 leaves : paper ; 207 x 156 (143 x 117) mm bound to 214 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 3r); attribution from preface (f. 1r), Ptolemaeus Tancredius J[uris] D[octor].
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 53 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-52, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 14 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Half-calf, splitting along upper hinge.
Origin: Written in Prague in 1570 (f. 2r).
Former owners include Frederick North (bookplate, inside upper cover) and Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps Ms. 4959, inside upper cover; old no. 1237).
Purchased on the Lessing and Edith Rosenwald Fund, 1972.

Keyword:

orations

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Counter-Reformation

Early works

Augsburg Confession

International relations

Catholic Church

Europe--Holy Roman Empire

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874973503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3z31ns08/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania