University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 103
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS871
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 103
- Title:
- Libellus super electionibus faciendis et earum processibus ordinandis.
- Mandagot, Guillaume de, -1321
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [between 1375 and 1425]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 40 leaves : parchment ; 179 x 129 (123 x 93) mm bound to 185 x 132 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Barnston, H. Charles
Daubeney, Amelia
- Note:
- Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Venerabili viro discretione ... (f. 38v) in eodem contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapiencia et graciarum actio honor virtus et potestas et fortitudo in saecula saeculorum amen. Explicit libellus electionis.
Binding: 18th-century French half calf, with marbled paper, spine with gilt floral stamps.
Origin: Written in France between the late 14th and early 15th century.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Text is the same as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 729.
Collation: Parchment, 40 + i (18th-century paper); 1-5⁸; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords in lower center margin, last verso of each quire.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: Rubricated, with 2-line and 3-line red initials throughout; several manicules (f. 4r, 7r, 7v, 8v).
This work was first printed in 1509 and again in 1523, but copies are seldom seen. No manuscript is cited by de Ricci in his Census of Medieval Mss. in the U.S.A.
Acquired, 1958.
"Cat. L. 8 [i.e., 8 pounds] at Dr. Neligan's sale in 1867" written on inside upper cover.
Formerly owned by H. Charles Barnston & Amelia Daubeney (bookplate, inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804453503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3sz96/manifest
- Holding Institution:
