University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 743

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1646

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 743

Title:

Carmen paschale.

Author:

Sedulius, active 5th century

Coelius Sedulius WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1450 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 66 leaves : paper ; 141 x 104 (103 x 73) mm bound to 146 x 105 mm

Note:

Item 6, on Socrates, is unidentified, incipit: Socrates sanctum ac venerabile consilium nobis (f. 50r).
Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Modern boards, back cover detached.
Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, underlining, and paragraph marks throughout.
Ms. codex.
Item 10 incipit: In summis missis festorum Nativitate Christi, Pasche, & Penthecostes, una sola oratio solemniter...
Item 13 incipit: Monachus ditur quasi solus et plangens seu dolens... (f. 64r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + i (near contemporary paper) + 66 + i (modern paper); [1-66]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a German gothic script (f. 1-47), with additional texts in 5 other hands.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1957.

Keyword:

Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Devotional literature

codices (bound manuscripts)

Poems

prayers (literary works)

Manuscripts, Latin

Jesus Christ

Carthusians

Catholic Church

Acrostics

Transfiguration of Jesus Christ

Socrates

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Monastic and religious life

Early works

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32r3p051/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania