University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 725

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1627

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 725

Title:

Fasciculus temporum

Fasciculus temporum

Author:

Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502

Werner Rolevinck WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

after 1471

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 40 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 417 x 273 mm bound to 429 x 286 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note in a later hand with the title Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum (inside upper cover).
Foliation: Paper, 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Illustrated with numerous drawings and diagrams in ink, with history laid out in linear diagrams, some illustrations colored by hand (for example, f. 3v, 4r, 6v, 9v, 11r, 16v).
Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, rebacked.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Griffon 7465 (Florence, 1464).
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), after 1471 (last date in manuscript, f. 40v).
Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.
Sold by Nardecchia (Rome), 1956.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Fifteenth century

diagrams

drawings (visual works)

Chronologies

codices (bound manuscripts)

Church history

Early works

World history

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924875513503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gp1m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania