University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 920
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1725
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 920
- Title:
- Grammatica latina.
- Scribe:
- Petrus, de Luno
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- 1460.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 38 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (148 x 96) mm bound to 211 x 153 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846
Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833
- Note:
- Collation: Paper, i + 38 + i; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰; 1-5, [v], 6-10, [v], 11-14, [iv], 15-19, [v]; contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; quires signed a-d on numbered pages.
Origin: Written in Germany in 1460 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Modern boards.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Sprinkled edges; guide letters in margins for missing decorated initials.
Script: Written in a semigothic cursive script.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines, ruled in light ink.
Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's, 14 Mar. 1825, lot 256.
Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1965.
Sold in the Boyle collection at auction by Stan. V. Henkels (Philadelphia), 17 Feb. 1930, lot 486.
Sold in the collection of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (London, 1773-1843, engraved bookplate bearing coat-of-arms inside upper cover, with shelfmark VI. B. c. 7; engraved bookplate bearing the Maltese cross of the Order of Bath on the recto of the first flyleaf) at auction by Evans (London), 31 July 1844, lot 408.
Sold in the collection of Richard Heber at auction by Evans (London), 10 Feb. 1836, lot 1358. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942265833503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3757j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
