University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1083
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS900
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1083
- Title:
- XVI libri reductorii moralis in quo moralizantur omnes figure biblie et cetera.
- Bersuire, Pierre, approximately 1290-1362
- Place:
- Avignon
- Date:
- 1405.
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 351 leaves : paper ; 294 x 220 (206 x 159) mm bound to 307 x 227 mm
- Note:
- Title from explicit; later title, Expositio apostolica reductorium morale totii biblie, from f. 351v.
Binding: Contemporary half leather over wooden boards, with brass catches (clasps missing) (Zacour-Hirsch); upper cover has pastedown paper; lower cover has pastedown parchment with neumes from a gradual (probably Aquitaine) with decoration from southern France.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 351; 1-28¹² 29⁸ 30⁶( -6); 1-189, 200-201, 201-334, 337-350; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto; modern pencil foliation in pencil after f.189 to correct missed pages f.190-351, upper right recto. Quires signed a-z, ab, abc, cd, de, ef, fg, gh. Catchwords on last leaf of each quire, lower center verso. References in this record are to contemporary foliation.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive book script.
Watermark: Likely a slightly earlier variant of Briquet Char 3527 (1412).
Decoration: Manicules (f. 9v, 10r, 12r, 31v, 37r, 80v, 104r, 158r, 169r, 189r, 204r, 205r-206r, 229r, 230r, 258r); some underlining in red and brown ink; initials in red (f.1r); some decorated ascenders (for example, f. 150r); sketch of a face in profile (f. 293r).
Origin: Written in Avignon in 1405 (f. 351v).
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1959. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942328003503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gf0n161/manifest
- Holding Institution:
