University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 727

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1628

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 727

Title:

Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1360 and 1425]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 150 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 339 x 254 (233 x 160) mm bound to 354 x 255 mm

Note:

Foliation: Parchment, 150; [1-150]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Lacks one leaf at the beginning, many leaves between f. 149-150 (sections 12-18), and final leaf from section 19 (incomplete at end?).
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 66-69 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by one or several closely related hands.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in gold, blue, pink, green, black, and yellow at the beginning of each section (f. 39r, 63r, 76r, 87v, 97r, 102v, 105r, 130v, 139r, 145v); red or blue initials with contrasting penwork ornamentation; paragraph marks in red.
Binding: Contemporary calf over wooden boards.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) between 1360 (based on the latest commentator cited; Jeffrey Witt, Calix O'Hara, Kjerstin Burdiek) and the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Percy Dobell, 1911.

Keyword:

commentaries

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Catholic Church

Sententiarum libri IV (Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32b8vd0t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania