Bryn Mawr College, MS 35

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16537

Shelfmark:

MS 35

Title:

De miseria conditionis humanae

De miseria condicionis humane

Author:

Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216

Innocent III WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1450-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 39+i; 215 x 160 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Motion, Laura Hurd

Laura Hurd Motion WIKIDATA

Note:

Water damage throughout; first leaf nearly detached; paper repairs to fols. 1r-2v
Binding: Parchment
Layout: Single column written in thirty-four lines; single vertical bounding lines full length; first quire bounded in lead, remaining three in ink with occasional horizontal bounding lines at upper margin; written area: 138 x 91 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Seven-line and nine-line initials in red or blue at the beginning of each part; four-line red and blue initials alternate throughout at the beginning of each chapter; faded remnants of red penwork grounds behind initials; majuscules touched with red; rubricated in red; marginalia throughout
Provenance: Produced in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century given the style of script and decoration; unidentified "GHo52" in ink and "H 1191" in pencil on front pastedown; unidentified "46" in ink on fol. 1r together with remnant of a round library stamp (43 mm) in lower margin with the word "Bibliotheca" recognizable below a flower; other words missing because paper substratum...

Keyword:

Paper

Italian (culture or style)

Fifteenth century

Italy

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS35.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS35/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College