Bryn Mawr College, MS 39
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16539
- Shelfmark:
- MS 39
- Title:
- De fide ad gratianum augustum libri quinque
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1440-1460
- Language:
- Latin; Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Material:
- Paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i + 151 + i; 237 x 65 mm bound to 247 x 173 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Tanis, James, 1928-2015
Tanis, Florence
- Note:
- Binding: Eighteenth-century half-bound vellum over marbled paper boards; gold-tooling on spine; also on spine in capital letters on dark brown label: "Sapientiam/ Salomonis/ Manoscr./ Cartac."
Layout: One column of twenty-three lines; blindruled with double vertical bounding lines; occasional partial top line in metal point; written area: 147 x 90 mm
Script: Humanistic cursive
Decoration: Spaces for seven-line initials left open at the beginning of each book; chapters have spaces for two-line initials and a few lines are left blank between chapters, perhaps for headings; guide letters visible in most spaces; the first two to seven lines of each book are written in rustic capitals
Provenance: Written in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century; notes in various hands on front pastedown: "Ambrosii", "7", "Cod. III. Latine"; on f. i "Forsam Rabbi Salomon" has been lined out; below that "Di fogli 150"; at the bottom of fol. i recto and continuing on to the verso are notes in Italian that explain how one owner discovered the attribution to Ambrose, along with the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS39.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS39/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
