University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 734

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1636

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 734

Title:

Collection of laws, edicts, and proclamations.

Author:

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558

Charles V WIKIDATA

Place:

Lombardy

Lombardy TGN

Date:

[after 1530]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with one document in French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 146 leaves : paper ; 306 x 205 (243 x 152) mm bound to 310 x 228 mm

Former Owner(s):

Paganthus, L

L. Paganthus WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in the northwest of Lombardy, after 1530 (f. 14v, 17v).
Ms. codex.
Incipit: Carolus quintus augustus divina favente clementia Imperator Romanorum ac Germaniae ... (f. 5r).
Foliation: Paper, 146; [iv], 1-132, [133-142]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 37-38 long lines, with notes in the left margin.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Decoration: Occasional line drawings in the margins: coat of arms (f. 29r, 61r), face (f. 32r), eagles (f. 130v).
Script: Written in one documentary hand through f. 131v, with additions in several hands; marginal notes in a different hand from text.
Sold by Bernard Rosenthal (New York), 1961.
Formerly owned by L. Panagathus (signature, f. [i] recto).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

laws (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

decrees

Dissenters, Religious

Europe--Holy Roman Empire

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875853503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n87313f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania