University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1079
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS895
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1079
- Title:
- Von den Tugenden ... etc..
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [1433]
- Language:
- German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 228 leaves : paper ; 300 x 210 (220 x 152) mm bound to 309 x 214 mm
- Note:
- Collation: Paper, i + 227 + i; 1¹,² (-1), 2¹², 3¹² (-7, torn out), 4-19¹²; [i], 2-29, 31-144, 149, 151-199, [x], 199-210, [xii]; contemporary roman foliation in ink, upper center recto and upper center verso of preceding leaf; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, and often also upper left verso. Gatherings 3-20 are sewn into the binding with thin strips of parchment from another...
Origin: Written in Germany in 1433 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title for manuscript from opening chapter rubric of predominant work (f. 1v).
Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch), with two strap-like clasps, one missing its peg.
Decoration: 5-line initial embellished in red, blue and green ink (f. 1r); 4-line initial in blue and green ink (f. 28r); 3- and 4-line initials in red and blue (f. 1v, 3r, 4v), red and green (f. 20r), or blue and green (f. 160v, 163r); initials throughout the codex generally 2-line (occasionally 3-line), in red, blue, or green ink (occasionally a combination of two of those colors); two...
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30-34 lines (the table of contents, f. 196v-210v, is written in only one column); frame-ruled in ink.
Sold by Helmuth Domizloff (Munich), 1954.
Signature of Dr. Puhlmann, 1836 (f. 1r).
Sold at auction by Hauswedell & Nolte, 4 November 1954, sale 109, lot 2. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942307023503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ws8hp25/manifest
- Holding Institution:
