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Metadata

DS ID:

DS744

Shelfmark:

LJS 60

Title:

Cosmographia] /

De chorographia

Author:

Mela, Pomponius

Pomponius Mela WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 70 leaves : parchment ; 169 x 111 (116 x 68) mm bound to 178 x 124 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bonius, Antonio de

Antonio de Bonius WIKIDATA

Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894

Baldassarre Boncompagni WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, 70 + ii; [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (19th-century foliation with larger numbers, also in pencil, also upper right recto, skips f. 38 and f. 50; this earlier foliation and the note in pencil at the upper margin of the first page are both mentioned in the 1892 catalog of the Boncompagni library).
Layout: Written in 23-24 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a rounded northern Italian humanistic script.
Decoration: 1 6-line initial in blue with red acanthus-leaf decoration, ornamental frame, and extensions (f. 1r); 15 2- or 3-line initials in either red or blue; 5 of the red initials have penwork in black (f. 5r, 37v, 42r, 55r, 60r); marginal notations, mostly place names, in red or blue; rubrics in red.
Binding: 15th-century vellum over pasteboards.
Origin: Possibly written in northern Italy, before 1450 (date of ownership inscription, f. 70v); probably written between 1440 and 1450.
Formerly owned by Antonio de Bonius (?), 1450 (inscription, f. 70v).
Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 356 (306)).
Appears in J. Halle Antiquariat's cat. 50 (1914), no. 20.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

palimpsests (manuscripts)

Geography, Ancient

Cities and towns, Ancient

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9946451633503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania