University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 1584

Metadata

DS ID:

DS16949

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 1584

Title:

De adventu Christi

De adventu Christi

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349

Nicholas of Lyra WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1500?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 47 leaves : parchment ; 193 x 140 (150 x 98) mm, bound to 197 x 149 mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, ii (later paper) + 47 (foliated by scribe up to fol. 35) + i (later paper) ; 1-310 48(-1) 510; quires 2-3 signed b-c.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines, above line; some marginal notes; ruled.
Script: Written in a humanistic miniscule with some cancelleresca traits. Fol. 41v-43v and fol. 43v-46r written by different scribes.
Decoration: Red underlining, headings in red; few manicules in red and brown.
Binding: 17th- or 18th-century vellum; evidence of ties, now lost.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in the second half of the 15th century based on script.
Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms1584.
Early owner's inscription on fol. 47r: "1523. adi .2. Giugno. ..."

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Vellum bindings

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illinois--Chicago

Catholic Church

Judaism

Interfaith relations

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8906493

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago