University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1135

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS938

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1135

Title:

Documents concerning the governance of Passau.

Place:

Passau

Passau TGN

Date:

[after 1539]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 119 leaves : paper ; 300 x 196 (230 x 135) mm bound to 306 x 209 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, ii + 115 + ii; 1-115; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Origin: Probably written in Passau, in Bavaria, Germany, after 1539, probably in the second half of the 16th century.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Later boards.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Titles and first lines of documents enlarged and written in a more formal book script, with embellished initials; section rubrics and initials of sections throughout codex with flourishes, sometimes embellished.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Layout: Written in 18-21 long lines.
Sold by H. Thomas Wenner (Osnabrück), 1962.

Keyword:

government records

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Renaissance

church records

codices (bound manuscripts)

Germany--Passau

Oaths

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942714013503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3154dq3c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania