University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 747

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[Aurora].

Metadata

DS ID:

DS1650

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 747

Title:

Aurora.

Aurora

Author:

Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209

Petrus Riga WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1250-1300]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 154 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 248 x 150 (202 x 59) mm bound to 264 x 168 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in 60 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
Incipit: Scire cupis lector quis codicis istius autor, Audi quid breviter dicat ad ista liber: Petrus et Aegidius me conscripsere...[Aegidius' preface from his second redaction, before 1208].
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment, 154; [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in France, mid-13th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: Red and blue used for initials; rubricated headings throughout; diagram or chart of the deadly sins (f. 50r); faint sketch of the Virgin[?] (f. 125).
Binding: Modern half leather over wooden boards with old guards (2 vellum incunable leaves from a canonical text with commentary, probably printed by Peter Schöffer of Mainz).
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal commentary in a second hand.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Poetry

codices (bound manuscripts)

Commentaries

poems

Manuscripts, Latin

Paraphrases

Bible

History of Biblical events

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875683503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33775w6m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania