University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 716

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1617

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 716

Title:

Speculum monachorum ... etc..

Author:

Arnoul, de Bohéries, 12th century

Arnulf of Bohéries WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[12--]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 47 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 150 x 118 mm bound to 160 x 114 mm

Former Owner(s):

Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981

Albert C. Baugh WIKIDATA

Note:

Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 47 + i (modern paper); [1-47]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Early foliation in ink, 143-146; [1-2] 3-43; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 29-32, 97-138, indicates these works were once part of a larger collection, or perhaps from different collections.
Bookseller's description pasted inside upper cover.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work, where the work has a common but incorrect attribution to Bernard of Clairvaux (f. 30v).
Heading [?] at the beginning of text (f. 5r) has been cut off.
Layout: Written in 21-22 (f. 1-4) and 28 (f. 5-47) long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by two different hands, the first (f. 1-4) from the early 13th century, the second (f. 5-47) from the second half of the 13th century (Zacour-Hirsch); marginal annotations in other hands.
Decoration: Illuminated Madonna and child, in gold, green, blue, red, and black, 8 cm. high (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials (f. 1v, 3r-v, 4r) in green, red, and blue; second section rubricated, with red 2- and 3-line initials (f. 5r and 30v).
Binding: Modern leather, splitting at upper hinge, lower cover detached.
Origin: Written in France[?], 13th century.
Ms. codex.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 29 June 1938, lot 538.
Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952).

Keyword:

Art

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Sermons

illuminations (paintings)

Regula (Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino)

Asceticism

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules

Early works

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Lord's prayer

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875273503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32434/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania