University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 912

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DS ID:

DS1717

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 912

Title:

La fontaine de toute science.

Author:

Sidrac, active 13th century

Sidrac WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1457.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 218 leaves : paper ; 285 x 215 (173 x 135) mm bound to 295 x 215 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 218 + ii (modern paper); [1-218]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Wormholes in text, water-stained.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 32 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: 7-line puzzle initial in black and red (f. 21r); 2- and 3-line initials in red throughout; rubrics in red; capitals touched with yellow.
Binding: 15th century blind-stamped calf, repaired and rebacked.
Incomplete at the end, 2 or more leaves missing.
Origin: Written in France in 1457 (f. 1r).
Sold by Il Polifilo (Milan), cat. 21 (1952), no. 93.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

romances (medieval narratives)

Manuscripts, French

dialogues

Science, Medieval

Materia medica, Vegetable

Philosophy, Medieval

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935591623503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3kh0f19m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania