University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 725

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DS ID:

DS1627

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 725

Title:

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

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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).
Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.
Ms. codex.
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).
Sold by Nardecchia, 1956.

Keyword:

chronologies (lists)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

drawings (visual works)

Church history

Early works

World history

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875513503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gp1m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania