University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 894

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DS ID:

DS1712

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 894

Title:

La regla y constituciones de la cofradia y congregacion y cofrades del glorioso y bienaventurado señor sant Pedro martyr.

Author:

Cofradía del Señor Sant Pedro martyr (Palencia, Spain)

Confraternity of St. Peter martyr (Palencia) WIKIDATA

Place:

Palencia

Palencia TGN

Date:

1569.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 12 leaves : parchment ; 283 x 197 (196 x 135) mm bound to 290 x 203 mm

Note:

Title from heading, f. 1; date from f. 11. Spine title from 19th century container.
Worm damage on boards.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Parchment, 12; [i], i-x, [xi], in contemporary hand, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in a single column of 30-32 lines; frame-ruled in red ink.
Script: Written in a humanist script by a single hand.
Decoration: Written in brown and black ink with red used for double ruled margins, initials, and headings. Woodcut stamp of an initial E (f. 1r).
Origin: Written in Palencia, Spain on 27 April 1569 (f. 11r).
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, elaborately tooled in gold and with the seal of the Holy Office on both covers. Later brass bosses in 16th century style; clasps intact.
Sold by Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1989.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Spanish

constitutions

Catholic Church

Confraternities

Inquisition

Spain--Palencia

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9934309013503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3fw00/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania