University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 740

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1643

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 740

Title:

Fifteenth-century miscellany.

Scribe:

Johannes, de Brauneck

Hans von Bruneck WIKIDATA

Place:

Bohemia

Bohemia TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

cze

Czech WIKIDATA

ger

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 257 leaves : paper ; 203 x 156 (147 x 102) mm bound to 216 x 165 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
"Elisabeth sancte in claustro me bibliotheca possideat" (inside lower cover).
Origin: Written in Bohemia in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, with remains of clasp.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Scribe for first work "per Johannem de prawnec" [i.e., Brauneck] at Donauwörth, 1470 (f. 124r).
Decoration: Decorated initials in black and red (f. 170r, 193v); rubricated headings, capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and manicules.
(2nd work): Explicit sermo...magistri Nicolai Dinkelspuhel (f. 143r); Sermon published from other manuscripts by H. Menhardt.
(5th work): Incipiunt tres puncti essenciales religionis Xristianae...(f. 146r).
(10th work): attributed to Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Zacour-Hirsch).
(14th work): Explicit tractatus cum registro suo continenti xlv articulos erroreos sive heretices Johannis Wickleph. Editus per [?] doctorem sacrae theologiae magistrum Stansilaum felicis [?] de Znoyma.
Collation: Paper, 257; 1-12¹², 13¹⁴ (-14), 14-16¹², 17-20¹⁶; [1-145], 1-23, [i], 24-32, 34-63, 63-109, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 27-37 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a German Gothic script by several hands.
(1st work): Expliciunt sermones de avaritia sive usuris per...Johannes Goldner decretorum doctorem...(f. 124r).
Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1956.
Provenance: Poor Clares at Brixen (Tyrol), "Liber iste Cenobii est Clarissarum Brixine commorancium" (inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

sermons

Finding tabs

Manuscripts, Latin

decrees

Canon law

Asceticism

Heresy

Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415

Czech Republic--Bohemia

Hussites

Wycliffe, John, -1384

Early works

Lollards

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875563503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p36h4cv1s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania