University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1077

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS893

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1077

Title:

Alexander ...etc..

Author:

Seifrit, active 14th century

Seifrit WIKIDATA

Eyb, Albrecht von, 1420-1475

Albrecht von Eyb WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Schwent, Hans

Hans Schwent WIKIDATA

Place:

Austria or Southern Germany

Austria TGN

Date:

[between 1400 and 1475]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 364 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 207 x 149 (157 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 154 mm

Former Owner(s):

Gruber, P. Leopold, 1733-1807

Leopold Gruber WIKIDATA

Piaristenkollegium St. Thekla auf der Wieden (Vienna)

Sankt Thekla church (Vienna) WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Austria or southern Germany in the early to mid-14th century.
Title for manuscript based on title of predominant work as given in Zacour-Hirsch.
Binding: Early 16th-century blind-stamped calf over wood boards (Zacour-Hirsch), with remnants of two clasps.
Decoration: Illuminated opening initial at start of first work (f. 2r), 5-line gold letter framed in a blue square; and at start of second work (f. 178r), 3-line gold letter framed in a blue square. Initial letters of chapters or sections are 3-line in red ink and embellished. Four initial letters are inhabited (fish, 36v; two fish, 117v; face, 241r; and woman's face, 241v), and numerous...
Script: Written in a German cursive hand by Hans Schwent (f. 160v).
Collation: Paper, 364; 1⁸(-1, pastedown) 2-14¹² 15¹²(-12) 16¹⁰ 17¹²(-1) 18-20¹² 21¹⁴(-6) 22-25¹² 26¹⁰(-10), 27-33⁸34⁸(-8, pastedown); [i-vii, 1-357], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 161-187 and 232 are blank); leaves missing between ff. 229 and 230, and between ff. 294 and 295; possible signatures visible on 48v, 60v, 72v (partially cut off), 84v, 96v, 108v, 120v, 132v, 134v...
Layout: Written in ca. 23-28 long lines; most leaves bearing text are frame-ruled in ink or lead.
Formerly owned by P. Leopold Gruber (1733-1807), procurator of the Viennese Piarists (Steinhoff); bookplate pasted to inside upper cover: "Ex libris P. Leopoldi Gruber cler. reg. e scholis piis").
Formerly owned by the Piaristenkollegium St. Thekla auf der Wieden, Vienna (Steinhoff); handwritten notations: "Biblioth. Coll. Widens. / 1854" (f. 1v); and "Bibl. Coll. Wid. 54" (f. 2r, upper right).
Appears in William H. Schab Gallery catalog 19 (1954), no. 37; sold, 1953.

Keyword:

Romances

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, German

romances (medieval narratives)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Griselda (Legendary character)

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Romances

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942294163503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3t43j56q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania