University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1156

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS950

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1156

Title:

Epithome artis epistolaris ... etc..

Author:

Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541

Urbanus Rhegius WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1512.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with words and names in Ancient Greek and Hebrew

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 28 leaves : paper ; 203 x 145 mm bound to 212 x 157 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in either Ingolstadt or Freiburg im Breisgau, 1512 (f. 8r, 24r).
Binding: Modern cloth, by Kurt Gabbel & Sons, Holland, Pa.
Title from predominant work (f. 9r).
Decoration: Manicules in margins throughout.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, except work 5, written in a "hasty cursive" (Zacour-Hirsch).
Layout: Ruled in drypoint.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 28 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁴(-2, 3, 4, 5) 2¹⁴; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto, including the remains of the missing leaves.
Watermark: Briquet Couronne 4902 (1520); although this watermark is cited from Trevise in 1520, Briquet lists many other extant sources from throughout central and eastern Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Purchased, 1962.

Keyword:

treatises

annotations

poems

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Rhetoric

Bebel, Heinrich, 1472-1518

Early works

Rhetorica ad Herennium

Zasius, Ulrich, 1461-1535

Epistolae ad familiares (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)

Institutiones oratoriae (Quintilian)

Rhetoric--Study and teaching

Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942949383503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vp3s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania