University of Pennsylvania, LJS 477

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS714

Shelfmark:

LJS 477

Title:

Florilegium.

Place:

Oxford?, England

Oxford TGN

Date:

[circa 1250]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with one inscription in Hebrew (f. 20r)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 71 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 187-195 x 138-144 (144 x 94) mm bound to 202 x 154 mm

Former Owner(s):

Rooryck, André

André Rooryck WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in England, perhaps at the Dominican Convent in Oxford, ca. 1250.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 71 + i (modern paper) ; 1-53, 55-72; later foliation in red ink, lower center recto.
Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboard.
Script: Written in scholastic script.
Decoration: Diagrams of distinctions (f. 1v-2r, 11v-13v, 17r, 20v, 24r, 43r-43v, 46v-47r, 63r, 72v); paragraph marks, some initials, and some underlining in red in limited sections of manuscript (f. 1r-19v, 29v-31r); blue paragraph marks on one leaf (f. 71v); occasional manicules (for example, f. 29r, 31v, 55v).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 53-64 lines, with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible on many leaves.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 July 2005, lot 50, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold by a French dealer to Andre Rooryck.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

sermons

diagrams

Manuscripts, Medieval

anthologies

Zoology

Sermons, Latin

Natural history

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9947455423503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rh34/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania