Bryn Mawr College, MS 17
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16520
- Shelfmark:
- MS 17
- Title:
- Vita s. martini, etc.
- Severus, Sulpicius
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint, 538-594
- Place:
- Verona?, Northern Italy
- Date:
- 1400-1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+90+i; 201 x 140 mm bound to 214 x 150 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Haddon Hindley, Sir John
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951
- Note:
- Binding: Original wooden boards with eighteenth-century blind-tooled leather backing, leather and metal clasp; on spine, gold-tooled: SEU. SVLPITII/ VITA S. MARTINI MSS; On back cover in ink: "Vita B. Martini"
Layout: Single column, twenty-eight to twenty-nine lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines, full length, occasionally with single horizontal bounding lines above the ruled lines; prickings in upper and lower margins
Script: Humanistic bookhand
Script: Multiple scribes
Decoration: Four two-line red initials; spaces for all other initials left unfilled with guide letters for decorator visible; headings and tables of contents in red, almost totally faded
Provenance: Written in the fifteenth century; the inclusion of the Life of Zeno suggests that it may have been written in Verona, that saint's diocese; early provenance unknown; library shelf mark: "533" in ink and on a paper label on inside front cover; on verso of folio i: "MS 32"; two unidentified catalogue entries glued to inside cover, # 5335 and #139; in lead on inside back cover... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS17.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS17/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
