University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 841
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1687
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 841
- Title:
- Historia Troiana.
- Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century
- Place:
- Northern Italy
- Date:
- [1370?]
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 142 leaves : paper ; 276 x 213 (218 x 122) mm bound to 285 x 216 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Woodward, William Harrison, 1856-1941
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Explicit (1st work): Ego Guido de Columpna messana pridem ... Factum est autem presens opus domini incarnatione. Mille CCLXXXVIII eiusdem, prime indictionis. Amen. Deo Gratias. Explicit.
Incipit (1st work): Etsi cotidie vetera recentibus obruantur...
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Author from explicit (f. 140r).
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 142 + ii (modern paper); [1-142]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on the verso of every twelfth leaf, except for 60v.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines (f. 1r-141r).
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script, with the main text written by a single hand, and the 2 decrees written by a second hand. Passages left blank in the main text were completed later by a 15th-century hand.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy around 1370 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Modern half-morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: Red used for initials (sometimes additionally decorated with fine red or black flourishes), paragraph marks, and capital strokes in the main text.
Sold by Goldschmidt, 1953.
Formerly owned by William Harrison Woodward (bookplate, inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931779863503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r20rx73/manifest
- Holding Institution:
