University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1172

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS956

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1172

Title:

Vita Sanctae Katharinae de Alexandria.

Author:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century

Albertanus of Brescia WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Ysidorus

Isidorus WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1458.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 13 leaves : parchment ; 314 x 215 (234 x 136) mm bound to 315 x 219 mm

Note:

Collation: Paper, 13; 1¹⁴(-1); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Binding: Vellum from a 14th-century missal, beginning with Ecclesiastes 24:28, with text and music.
Title supplied by Zacour-Hirsch.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in two columns, outlined in ink.
Script: Written in a secretary hand by Ysidorus (f. 1r); text on vellum binding in a Gothic book hand.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Tête de bœuf 14858 (1486).
Decoration: 4-line decorative initial (f. 1r), 2-line decorative initial (f. 3r), both in red; elaborately decorated initials in black, green, and red on upper and lower cover.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1458 (f. 13r).
Accessioned, 1968.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Finding tabs

Biographies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts

hagiographies (literary genre)

Early works

Christian women saints--Biography

Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943067333503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32t0w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania