University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 925
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1729
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 925
- Title:
- De amore et dilectione dei et proximi, ac de forma vitae ... etc..
- Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century
- Place:
- Veneto?, Italy
- Date:
- [1400-1425?]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 90 leaves : parchment ; 231 x 137 (168 x 85) mm bound to 238 x 140 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Chasles, M. 1793-1880
- Note:
- Title from table of contents (f. iii recto); 17th-century title page lists titles of other works by Albertano (f. ii recto).
Collation: Parchment, ii (17th-century paper) + 90 + ii (17th-century paper); 1² 2-7⁸ 8-11¹⁰; [ii], 1-86, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords in pen-flourished boxes on the lower center of the last verso of quires 2-7; quires 8-11 have catchwords on the lower center verso of the last verso of each quire.
Ms. codex.
Binding: 17th-century vellum with gilt title Opere spiri. temp.
Decoration: Illuminated 3-line initial "Q" with flowers, gold, and blue, red, green, pink, and yellow ink (f. 50r), pen-flourished 2-line initials in red and blue (f. 49r-84r).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Oiseau 12250 (1592) and 12251 (1590).
Script: Written in an Italian Gothic book hand by two scribes in red and brown ink.
Layout: Written in 35 long lines; ruled in lead and drypoint; prickings visible; rulings in the second part (f. 49r to end) done with a rake.
Origin: Written in Italy (perhaps Veneto) in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by Michel Chasles (bookplate, inside upper cover: "Ex bibliotheca Michaelis Chasles Acad. Scientiar. Socii." with engraver's signature L. Benard).
Sold by Herbert Reichner (New York), 1966. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942377533503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jw86p1w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
