University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 104

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DS ID:

DS875

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 104

Title:

Le constitutione delle Suore della penitentia de Santo Domenico del Terzo Ordine del Monasterio di Santo Vincentio di Firenze vocato Annalena.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1475 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 17 leaves : parchment ; 248 x 173 (173 x 102) mm bound to 254 x 177 m.

Note:

Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 17 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁰, 2¹⁰(-3) [bound as 2²(+1), 3⁴]; 1-17; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The three single folios of what was originally quire 2 have been given tissue supports and sewn as a quire of one bifolium and one single folio. This was probably done at the time of the original sewing.
Except for some stains on the parchment, generally in very good condition.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda script.
Decoration: Rubricated throughout; spaces for initials at the beginning of each chapter.
Binding: 15th-century Italian limp vellum.
Origin: Written in Florence at the monastery Annalena of Santo Vincentio, in the last quarter of the 15th century (rubric, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Prince Petri Ginori Conti (bookplate, inside upper cover); sold by Olschki (Florence) at one point (inv. # 27860; sticker, inside upper cover).
Acquired, 1963.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

codices (bound manuscripts)

constitutions

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Specimens

Dominicans

Catholic Church

Monasticism and religious orders for women

Italy--Florence

Constitutions

Early works

Discipline

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804463503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n578/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania