University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 744

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1647

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 744

Title:

Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... etc..

Author:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century

Albertanus of Brescia WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1350 and 1399]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 70 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm bound to 270 x 204 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1.
Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge.
Attribution to Peter Damian from Zacour-Hirsch, taken from bookseller's description, with the title Rhythmos ad diversos mundi status; this work often appears in collections of Albertano da Brescia and is sometimes attributed to him as well.
Title from title of predominant work; titles for individual works taken from 15th-century index (f. 1), which also includes a list of headings for the first three works of Albertano.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 70 + ii (modern paper); [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r).
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand.
Decoration: Historiated initial depicting a knight with shield, in green, pink, purple, red, yellow and gold, with a botanical border, probably 15th-century and German, painted over earlier illumination (f. 2r). Rubricated, with capitals in red and blue, decorated 2-line and 4-line initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork ornamentation and decorated borders at the left edge of most...
Binding: 19th-century stamped calf, front hinge split.
Sermons begin on f. 58r, 60v, 63r, 65v, and 68v.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

sermons

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin

Christian ethics

Rhetoric

Christian life

Consolation

Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875603503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3qn5zc1z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania