University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 746
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1649
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 746
- Title:
- Breviary.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Avignon
- Date:
- [14--]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 166 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 149 x 100 (100 x 62) mm bound to 155 x 107 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Kothen, Charles, 1814-1880
Léon, Michel de, 1727-1800
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch is Psalter.
Upper outer corner of f. [i] cut out.
Origin: Written in Avignon in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment; ii (18th-century paper) + 167 + ii (18th-century paper); [i], [1-166], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in Gothic book script in a single hand, except for a middle section (f. 50r-81v) in a second hand; headings and marginal notations in a later hand.
Decoration: 4-line puzzle initial (f. 1r); 8-line puzzle initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 50r); rubricated throughout, with red used for headings, initials and capitals; some capitals stroked with yellow.
Binding: 18th-century French calf, mistakenly titled Diurna[l] de Marsei[lle] on spine.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.
Arms of Michel de Léon, treasurer of France at Marseilles (1727-1800) on spine; monogram of Charles Kothen (1814-1880), a Finnish nobleman who was a refugee in Marseilles, on paper endleaf. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875663503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38g8fj78/manifest
- Holding Institution:
