University of Pennsylvania, LJS 500
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS735
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 500
- Title:
- Liber mirabilium.
- Scribe:
- Sandei, Jeronimus de, 15th century
- Place:
- Piran
- Date:
- 1452-1455.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 100 leaves : parchment ; 204 x 143 (146 x 88) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm
- Note:
- Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 100 + i (modern paper); 1² 2⁶ 3-7¹⁶ 8¹²; every tenth leaf foliated in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords with decorative dots, lower center of last verso in gatherings 3-7 (f. 24v, 40v, 56v, 72v, 88v).
Origin: Written in Piran (then under the control of the Republic of Venice, in modern Slovenia), between 1452 (f. 1r) and 1455 (f. 98v). The date 1451 also appears in the manuscript (f. 99v).
Ms. codex.
Binding: Modern parchment.
Decoration: Opening page of text illuminated with a 10-line historiated initial enclosing a picture of Hermes Trismegistus on gold ground and a three-quarters border of acanthus leaves (border at top slightly trimmed) including the Sandei arms (blue lion rampant) at the bottom of the page (f. 9r); 2 historiated initials in red with blue penwork and the blue lion of the Sandei arms (f. 6r...
Script: Written in semi-cursive humanistic script by multiple hands, including that of Jeronimus de Sandei of Piran (f. 98v).
Layout: Written in 32-33 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, vertical bounding lines.
Title from closing rubric (f. 98v).
Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 2012, lot 19; sold privately to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2012.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959136703503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3804xk56/manifest
- Holding Institution:
