University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1059
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS881
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1059
- Title:
- Decretales Gregorii IX
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- between 1280 and 1299
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 361 leaves : parchment ; 320 x 180 (main text 166 x 88, gloss up to 292 x 165) mm bound to 339 x 208 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Todd, James Henthorn, 1805-1869
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, v + 355 + i; 12 2-1212 138 1415 (+15) 15-1812 1914 2012 219 (+9) 22-3012 312; f. iv-v are a later bifolio inserted in the middle of the bifolio forming f. 1-2.
Layout: Main text written in two columns of 39 lines, surrounded by two columns of gloss of varying length.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand with the glossing script smaller and slightly less formal; annotations in a 14th-century English hand which also added cadels (as on f. 2-21, for example).
Decoration: Four penwork title panels and five large flourished initials (f. 3, 88, 158, 241, 262, no penwork panel on f. 241) in red and blue at the opening of the five books; two diagrams in red and black concerning consanguinity and affinity (f. 261v, 262r); running heading of book number in alternate letters of red and blue, paragraph marks in red and blue, one-line initials in red or blue...
Binding: 18th-century half calf, spine in six compartments is gilt tooled but very worn (Fogg).
Origin: Written in France between 1280 and 1299 (Fogg).
The name Maistre Jacques Dubon (?) appears among notes in 15th- and 16th-century French on the added leaf at the end of the volume.
Sold in the collection of the Rev. James Henthorn Todd (1805-1869), Regius Professor of Hebrew and Librarian at Trinity College, Dublin, by John Fleming Jones, Dublin, 1869; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps(1792-1872); Phillipps ms. 23022 (inside upper cover and f. 1).
Printed label inside upper cover: A. H. Spencer Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.
Sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2007. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9941481103503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3319s70b/manifest
- Holding Institution:
