University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 105
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS882
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 105
- Title:
- Privilegia et libertates.
- Teutonic Knights
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [1450?]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 51 leaves : parchment ; 177 x 123 (127 x 85) mm bound to 170 x 125 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Most of these documents are published in Ernst Strehlke, Tabulae ordinis theutonici (Berlin, 1869). The numbers of the documents in Strehlke are given in the margin of the manuscript, in modern pencil.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Heading on f. 1r: Quod fratres domus theutonici libere utantur privilegiis et libertatibus a domino papa concessis hospitalariis et templariis.
Collation: Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 49 + i (contemporary paper); 1-4¹⁰, 5¹⁰(-1); [1-49]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. There is a stub between f. 41 and 42, but no text is lost; f. 48 is tipped in.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch). The many marginal references to Mergentheim, along with others to Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Cologne, and other German municipalities refer to locations of original or related documents.
Decoration: 4-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); 3-line or 4-line alternating red or blue initials; rubricated throughout.
Binding: Limp vellum notarial document (1431-1447, addressed to Pope Eugene IV), with decorative sewing on spine. Germany, 15th century.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in a single hand, except for a prayer (f. 49v) which appears to be in a different, slightly later hand.
Acquired, 1966. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804473503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3fc0t/manifest
- Holding Institution:
