University of Pennsylvania, LJS 60
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS744
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 60
- Title:
- Cosmographia /
- Mela, Pomponius
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [between 1440 and 1450]
- Language:
- Latin
- 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
Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Possibly written in northern Italy, before 1450 (date of ownership inscription, f. 70v); probably written between 1440 and 1450.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Binding: 15th-century vellum over pasteboards.
Script: Written in a rounded northern Italian humanistic script.
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.
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.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Appears in J. Halle Antiquariat's cat. 50 (1914), no. 20.
Formerly owned by Antonio de Bonius (?), 1450 (inscription, f. 70v).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Feb. 1997.
Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 356 (306)). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9946451633503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3s36f/manifest
- Holding Institution:
