University of Pennsylvania, LJS 48
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS724
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 48
- Title:
- Instrumenta feudorum castri Sone; cum privilegio comitatus in persona[m] Don Ioannis et fratrum ac descendentium de Faelis
- Scribe:
- Ruffo, Francesco di Andrea
Medico, Alessandro di Nicolo
- Place:
- Verona
- Date:
- 1504-1530.
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 26 leaves : parchment ; 305 x 187 (224 x 113) mm bound to 310 x 185 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cron, B. S
Abbey, J. R. 1896-1969
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 3r).
Collation: Parchment, 26 + i (parchment); 12 2-310 44; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines (f. 3r-18v) and 36 long lines (f. 19v-23v); ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines in lead visible on some leaves (f. 3r-19r) and ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines (f. 19v-26v)
Script: Written in humanistic script by Francesco di Andrea Ruffo (f. 3-17) and Alessandro di Nicolo Medico (f. 19-23), with a few documents copied by another hand (f. 1r-2v, 18r-18v).
Decoration: 1 11-line illuminated initial (f. 3r) and 3 illuminated initials (4- to 8-line) in left margins (f. 6v, 9r, 13v) by a pupil or follower of Veronese illuminator Felice Feliciano; red and blue paragraph marks on one opening (f. 3v-4r).
Binding: Original Veronese calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled; 4 catches, no clasps; rebacked.
Origin: Written in Verona in 1504.
Sold at auction at Internationaal Antiquariaat (Amsterdam), 22 March 1961, lot 915.
Formerly owned by B. S. Cron, Kew, 1 July 1965 (inscription inside upper cover).
Appears in Alan Thomas' cat. 18 (1967), no. 4.
Formerly owned by J. R. Abbey, ms. no. JA 7387, 17 June 1967 (London; bookplate inside upper cover; inscription inside lower cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 20 June 1978, lot 2992.
Appears in H. P. Kraus' cat. 159 (1981), no. 9; handled subsequently by Martin Breslauer.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 Apr. 1996, lot 8.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949377603503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3n64g/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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