University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1128

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS933

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1128

Title:

Mystical miscellany.

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

ca. 1440.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 264 leaves : paper ; 153 x 107-108 (103 x 69) mm bound to 160 x 115 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in southern Germany, ca. 1440 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title for codex and for work 1 supplied by cataloger; title for works 2-4 from incipits.
Decoration: 5-line red initial with black ink drawing of a face (f. 1r); 2-line decorated red initials (f. 2v, 3r, 3v, 22v, 26r, 34r, and 44r). Throughout work 3, many 2-line initials in red, sometimes preceded by a rubric in red; and red pen strokes highlighting beginnings of verses and proper names; 4-line initial in red (f. 227r). Sporadic pen strokes of red highlighting initial of...
Script: Written in a German cursive hand. Pen trials on flyleaves.
Layout: Written in 17-19 long lines.
Foliation: Paper, i (parchment) + 262 (f. 120, 258-262 blank) + i (parchment); [1-262]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Inscription: Mein dinst wist vorlieb Johann ich lass dich (front flyleaf, verso).
Sold by Erik von Scherling (Leiden, Netherlands), 1954.

Keyword:

devotional literature

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, German

anthologies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Jesus Christ

Passion of Jesus Christ

Lord's Supper--Catholic Church

Mysticism--Catholic Church

Devotional literature, German

Lord's Supper--Adoration

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942636113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34m91f41/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania