University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 96
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1745
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 96
- Title:
- Opuscula varia.
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [circa 1450-1475]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 156 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 299 x 214 (207 x 142) mm bound to 306 x 211 mm
- Note:
- Collation: Paper, 156; 1² 2-3¹² 4¹²⁻²(-1, -2) 5-7¹² 8¹²⁻¹(-8) 9-14¹² 15¹; [1-26, 29-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, [1-314], with pastedowns paginated 1 and 314. References in this record are to modern foliation. Folios 27-28 are missing, and f. 82 is almost completely torn out. Quires 1-14 signed A, a-n in modern pencil...
The copies of works 7-12 (f. 99r-120v) may be slightly earlier than the rest of the volume. The copies of works 21-24 and the following notes (f. 157-159v) are slightly later, dating to the end of the 15th century.
Folio 159 loose; completely detached from binding.
Many folios show evidence of mildew and mold damage. The following notation in pencil is found inside lower cover: "This MS fumigated to prevent further growth of mold Jan. 1950 after technique of Brit. Mus. W. Spawn." [Willman Spawn was a scholar and codicologist at the University of Pennsylvania.].
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Quires 10 and 11 (f. 99-120, containing works 7-12 of the present manuscript) were originally a separate codicological unit. Some original folio numbers are extant and indicate that f. 99-120 were originally numbered 1-21. These quires may be slightly earlier in date than the rest of the manuscript. They were added to the rest of the volume when it was bound in the late 15th century.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by several hands, with some marginal notes in additional hands, including 17th-century notations (f. 159v).
Decoration: Extensive rubrication used for initials, capitals, headings, and underlining; Three consanguinity diagrams (f. 147r, 147v, 148v)
Watermarks: Similar to Piccard, vol. 2: 3, XIII. 587-588 (1463, Lienz, Donauwörth, Öhringen), on ff. 1-98, 123-146, 149-156. Similiar to Piccard, vol. 11: II. 471-524, on f. 99-122. Piccard, vol. 8, IV. 50 (Mainz, 1466), on f. 147-8, 157-159.
Binding: 15th-century German pigskin over boards, incised and stamped with metal clasps and etiquettes; including a "Maria" banner. Binding in generally good condition, though the leather is peeling and pulling away from the boards in places and from the upper spine. The lower clasp is missing. There are worm holes in the cover boards, particularly at the top and fore edges.
Origin: Written in southern Germany, possibly Memmingen, 1450-1475 (one work date 1466, f. 142v).
Front cover has writing and a label that are hard to read. Spine shows traces of similar labels.
Formerly owned by Presb. F. Vallée (ex libris, inside upper cover); Ludwig Rosenthal (Catalogue 120 (1909), no. 127; description, inside upper cover). Also includes a description from an unidentified catalog (inside upper cover).
Formerly held at the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (Germany). Three ex libris notations: "Carthusien. in Buxia" (f. 1r); "Carthusianorum Patrum/ Hulae B. V. Mariae in Buxheim" (f. 2r); "Hunc liber dedit dominus Johannes Frank socius divinorum apud Sanctum/ Martinum in Memmingen fratribus ordinis carthusiensis in buchsheim/ oretur pro eo propter deum" (inside lower cover).
Purchased, 1949. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804153503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38s4jq5c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
