University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 78
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1669
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 78
- Title:
- Miscellany of works on Catholic doctrine, canon law and religious life.
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 179 leaves : paper ; 294 x 220 (170 x 93) mm bound to 297 x 228 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
There is evidence of slight water damage.
Folio 13 is loose.
Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch and Andrew Little give the title: Registrum primi [-quarti] libri sententiarum.
Spine label gives Nikolaus Jauer as the main heading for the entire manuscript.
Colophon (f. 63v, 154v, 174r): Jo. Deo gratias alt.
Signatures: Arabic numerals, lower left corner, first recto of each quire.
Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive book script by many hands, with marginal comments in several contemporary hands.
Decoration: Rubricated capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and underlining throughout.
Watermark: Similar to Piccard V. vii. 429 (1470).
Binding: 15th-century German blind stamped brown calf over pasteboards, badly abraded, with cut marks on upper and lower covers.
Collation: Paper, 179; 1-2⁶, 3⁵, 4-14⁶, 15⁶(+1); [1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Some catchwords visible, lower right verso of last leaf of each quire.
Passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
Contains an old, unidentified shelf mark, E18 (f. 1r); purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1877. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915806223503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3707wq9b/manifest
- Holding Institution:
