University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 748

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1651

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 748

Title:

De educatione liberorum et eorum claris morbis.

Author:

Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458

Maffeo Vegio WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome

Rome TGN

Date:

[1443]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 139 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 203 x 140 (123 x 74) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm

Note:

Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: 18th-century French calf.
Ms. codex.
Incipit: Si tantum nobis ingenii esset ut quod impresentia aggredimur recte consummateque perficere possemus (f. 1r).
Colophon: finit. Romae apud Sanctum Petrum nono Kalendis Januarii millesimo CCCC XLiiii. Finis (f. 138v) [Rome, 24 December 1443].
Decoration: 6-line initial with red and blue penwork and faded coat of arms (f. 1r); 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-line initials in red or blue; manicules (for example, f. 12r); marginal faces (f. 12v, 17v, 25r, and 132v); sprinkled edges.
Layout: Written in 32-33 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a humanistic hand, with marginal annotations in other hands, including a northern European hand.
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century paper) + 139 + i (18th-century paper); [1-139]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; f. 77-80 [between books 3 and 4] are blank.
Purchased, 1958.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Education

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34f1mk43/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania