University of Pennsylvania, LJS 457

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS694

Shelfmark:

LJS 457

Title:

Loyca parva ... etc..

Author:

Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428

Paul of Venice WIKIDATA

Place:

Perugia

Perugia TGN

Date:

1475.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 90 leaves : paper ; 224 x 152 (170 x 100) mm bound to 230 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico

Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Binding: Late 16th or early 17th-century parchment; leather spine label, Tract[atus] de comp[osito] et divis[o]; arms of Pope Gregory XIII and Jesuit monogram stamped on spine in black ink.
Decoration: 5-line initial in pink, black, green, and gold, with extensions of acanthus leaves, flowers, and gold bezants (f. 1r); pen-and-wash diagram of logical relationships (f. 3v); pen-and-wash diagram in the form of a Porphyrian tree showing a progression from substantia to homo (f. 7v); 2 3-line initials in red at the beginning of the second work (f. 87r); many spaces left empty...
Title for manuscript from closing rubric of predominant work (f. 87r).
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script by Franciscus Alexandrus de Callio, another member of the community of Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia (f. 87r).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36 lines.
Collation: Paper, i (late 16th- or early 17th-century) + 90 + i (late 16th- or early 17th-century); 1-9¹⁰; [1-90], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Vertical catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower right verso.
Origin: Written in the abbey of the Hermits of Saint Augustine in Perugia in 1475 (f. 87r).
Formerly in the library of the Pontificio Collegio germanico ungarico in Rome (inscription, f. 1r).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2003.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

diagrams

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

pen and wash drawings

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

Logic, Medieval

Logic

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958070733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37f92/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania