University of Pennsylvania, LJS 477
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS714
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 477
- Title:
- Florilegium
- Place:
- Oxford?, England
- Date:
- circa 1250
- Language:
- Latin, with one inscription in Hebrew (f. 20r)
- Material:
- parchment, color illustrations
- 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
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
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.
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.
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).
Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboard.
Origin: Written in England, perhaps at the Dominican Convent in Oxford, ca. 1250.
Sold by a French dealer to Andre Rooryck.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 July 2005, lot 50, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9947455423503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rh34/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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