University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 709

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1611

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 709

Title:

Horalogium sapientiae.

Author:

Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366

Henry Suso WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1400 and 1450]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 194 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 213 x 142 (152 x 90) mm bound to 220 x 140 mm

Note:

Origin: Written in Germany, in the first half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Title from caption heading (f. 2r) and front cover.
Foliation: Paper, 194; [1-194]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: 5-line initial in red and blue (f. 1r); rubricated headings, initials, and capitals throughout; manicule drawn in ink (f. 30v) and foliate design drawn in lead (f. 65v); simple decorated initials in red and black, some with foliate designs (f. 79v, 97v), and some with faces (f. 91v, 164v).
Binding: Contemporary dyed kid over wooden boards, clasps missing.
Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt & Co. (London), 1955.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 129.
Sold to James H. Reddan (Venice), 1896; sold in a collection of Reddan's books at auction at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 February 1905, lot 402.
Signature (f. 1r): "Acquistato in Vienna dall' Antiquario della Biblioteca Imperiale in quella città e portato in dono al mio caro Cognato G. Ghizzi. Maggio. 1869 [sig.] Frangnani[?]."

Keyword:

dialogues

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Mysticism

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875083503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3th8bq1p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania