University of Pennsylvania, LJS 56

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS741

Shelfmark:

LJS 56

Title:

Logica parva.

Author:

Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428

Paul of Venice WIKIDATA

Place:

Padua?, Italy

Padua TGN

Date:

1420.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves : parchment and paper ; 215 x 145 (151 x 100) mm bound to 215 x 150 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger; title added by a later hand, Logica in octo tractatus tributa, in ink, inside upper cover.
Origin: Probably written in Padua, at the university; completed in 1420 (f. 48v).
Binding: Limp parchment with a few inscriptions, including a slightly garbled version of the rhymed motto that appears with a figurative representation of the Republic of Venice carved for the Ducal Palace in the Piazza San Marco in the mid-14th century (Forti[s] iusta trono furia[s] mare sub pede pono) on the upper cover.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Monts 11863 (Italy, 1402-1403).
Collation: Parchment and paper, 48; 1¹⁰ 2-3¹² 4¹⁴; [1-48], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Horizontal catchwords on last verso of gatherings 1-2, lower center (f. 10v, 22v). Outermost and center bifolia of each gathering are parchment, the rest paper.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 39-43 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in Italian Gothic cursive script by 2 hands (f. 1-22, 23-48); gatherings 3 and 4 (f. 23-48) in the hand of Johannes de Beylario (f. 48v).
Decoration: 11-line opening initial in mauve, blue, and pale green on a gold ground (f. 1r); 3 4-line initials in mauve or pale green on a purple ground (f. 1r, 4v, 12v, 20v); 4-line initials in red throughout, some with penwork in black ink; paragraph marks in red and capitals touched with red throughout; simple decorative frames in ink around catchwords (f. 10v, 22v).
Ms. codex.
Sold by H. P. Kraus, cat. 91 (1993), no. 41, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

compendiums

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Logic

Logic, Medieval

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957602383503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3m88c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania