University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 719

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DS ID:

DS1620

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 719

Title:

Expositio super regulam beati Augustini episcopi.

Author:

Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328

Nicholas Trivet WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany? or Netherlands

Germany TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 292 x 200 (222 x 149) mm bound to 300 x 197 mm

Note:

Title from heading (f. 1r).
Origin: Written in the lower Rhine valley[?] or Lowlands in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Incipit prologus expositionis magistri Nycolai Trivet super regulam beati Augustini episcopi... (f. 1r). Incipit, cap. 1: Ante omnia fratres carissimi diligatur Deus (f. 1v).
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 48 + i (modern paper); [1-48]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: 9-line red and blue initial with red and green penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); simple red initials throughout; extensive rubrication used for headings, paragraph markers, capitals, and underlining.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Sold by Lathrop G. Harper, 1948.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, ca. 1937.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Augustinians

Regula (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)

Dominicans

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules

England

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875303503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3352d/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania