University of Pennsylvania, LJS 421
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS665
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 421
- Title:
- Letter from Hippocrates to Caesar
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1350 and 1375?
- Language:
- Old French
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 24 leaves : parchment ; 180 x 112 (126 x 83) mm bound to 189 x 124 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, 24 ; [1-24] ; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 23-24 long lines ; ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: 2-line initial in red with red filigraine infill and descender (f. 1r); 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red.
Binding: 19th-century brown calf, gilt framed, gilt lettering on spine.
Origin: Written in France, probably in the third quarter of the 14th century.
Formerly owned by Joseph Barrois; sold by Barrois to Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (Ashburnham no. 239), 1849.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the Ashburnham collection, 10 June 1901, lot 277; handled subsequently by J. & J. Leighton (London) and Messers. Berkelouw (Sydney).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Jul. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9946263053503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p31d26/manifest
- Holding Institution:
