University of Pennsylvania, LJS 54
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS739
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 54
- Title:
- Cartolarii /
- Contarinus, Magister
- Place:
- Padua
- Date:
- between 1227 and 1237
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 40 leaves : parchment ; 154 x 110 (115 x 69) mm bound to 161 x 121 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century parchment) + 40 + ii (19th-century parchment); 1-58. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines, with the first line of text above the line; ruled in lead; prickings visible on most leaves.
Script: Written in Gothic script.
Decoration: Small drawings in red ink of a bird (f. 27r) and a lion (f. 40v); sketch in black ink of an animal, perhaps a dragon (f. 9v); large initial in red ink with color wash and penwork (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials and chapter headings in red throughout.
Binding: 19th-century Italian gold-tooled diced leather.
Origin: Written in Padua between 1227 (earliest dated deed recorded in manuscript, f. 2r) and 1237 (beginning of tenure of Ezzolino da Romano, who does not appear in the manuscript, as podestà of Padua)
Sold at auction at Gabus (Bevaix, Switzerland), 11 Dec. 1989, lot 5253; handled by Sam Fogg (London) at some point between Gabus and Kraus.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 188 (1991), no. 6, and 199 (1995), no. 112; sold by H. P. Kraus to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 1996 (bookplate inside upper cover).
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949359023503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3j936/manifest
- Holding Institution:
