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Vita S[anctae] Katharinae de Alexandria

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32t0w
Title: Vita S[anctae] Katharinae de Alexandria
Name: Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century, Ysidorus (scribe)
Date: 1458
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Finding tabs, Hagiographies (works), Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Biographies, manuscripts (documents)
Description: A biography of St. Catherine of Alexandria, who was famous for her great learning, and supposedly lived during the reign of the emperor Maxentius. A finding tab and the remains of another finding tab in red leather, f. 1r.
Extent: 13 leaves : parchment ; 314 x 215 (234 x 136) mm bound to 315 x 219 mm
Language: Latin
Coverage: Early works 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by Zacour-Hirsch., Collation: Paper, 13; 1¹⁴(-1); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto., 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., Binding: Vellum from a 14th-century missal, beginning with Ecclesiastes 24:28, with text and music., Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1458 (f. 13r)., Latin.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32t0w
Subject: Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint, Christian women saints -- Biography -- Early works 1800, Christian women saints -- Biography
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1172
Provenance: Accessioned, 1968.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9943067333503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p32t0w/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS956

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1172

Title:

Vita S[anctae] Katharinae de Alexandria

Life of Catherine of Alexandria

Author:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century

Albertanus of Brescia Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Ysidorus

Isidorus

WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

TGN

Date:

1458.

fifteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Latin

WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment

AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by Zacour-Hirsch.
Collation: Paper, 13; 114(-1); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
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.
Binding: Vellum from a 14th-century missal, beginning with Ecclesiastes 24:28, with text and music.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1458 (f. 13r).
Accessioned, 1968.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

hagiographies (literary genre)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Finding tabs

Manuscripts, Latin

Biographies

Christian women saints--Biography

Christian women saints

Early works

Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint

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