University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 55
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS740
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 55
- Title:
- L'image del monde ... etc..
- Place:
- Lorraine?, France
- Date:
- [129-?]
- Language:
- Old French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 52 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, maps ; 320 x 232 (238 x 144) mm bound to 333 x 246 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Horblit, Harrison D
- Note:
- Binding: Velvet over pasteboard.
Origin: Written in France, possibly Lorraine, in the late 13th century.
Title for manuscript from title of predominant work (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, 52 ; 1-5⁸ 6⁸(-2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7) 7⁸ 8⁸(-2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7); gatherings 1-7 signed xxiii-xxviiii, lower right of last verso; modern foliation in pencil, [1-52], upper right recto. Catchwords, lower right of last verso.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43 lines; frame-ruled in lead with double outer vertical bounding lines; prickings in outer margin on some leaves.
Script: Written in a French Gothic book script.
Decoration: numerous diagrams (f. 8-27v), mostly astronomical or cosmological, but including a T-O world map (f. 10r); 5-line initial in red with floral decoration and penwork in red and blue (f. 1r); 3 3-line initials with contrasting penwork (f. 28r, 42r); numerous 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork in one contrasting color or in 2 colors, sometimes incorporating fish shapes in...
Formerly owned by Harrison D. Horblit (Ridgefield, Conn.), shelf number H12487 (pencil note, inside lower cover).
Appeared in H. P. Kraus's cat. 80 (1956), no. 117, and cat. 155 (1980), no. 6.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of H. Carton Rogers, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, 2012.
Sold by H. P. Kraus to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 1996. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948060563503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zd2k/manifest
- Holding Institution:
