University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1122

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS929

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1122

Title:

Topica ... etc..

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Artist:

Lessi, P

P. Lessi WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1475 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 24 leaves : paper ; 296 x 225 (150 x 87) mm bound to 302 x 228 mm

Note:

Collation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 24 + iii (modern paper); 1-2²⁴; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchword, lower right verso (f. 12v).
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title from caption heading for predominant work (f. 2r).
Binding: Modern vellum.
Watermark: Briquet Couronne 4862 (1483-4).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a humanistic script.
Layout: Written in 24 long lines, in red and brown ink, with marginal annotations.
Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's, cat. 15 (1964), no. 10; sold by Rosenthal in 1965.
Collector's stamp on various pages with crown and letters "P. T."
Armorial bookplate with Florence skyline inside upper cover with motto, "Quo pulchrius lumine trino ex libris Petri Ginori Conti," artist's name P. Lessi and engraver's name Michelassi.

Keyword:

treatises

annotations

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Rhetoric, Ancient

Topics (Aristotle)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942610053503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dw0p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania