University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1202
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS961
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1202
- Title:
- Pawilhar.
- Place:
- Liège, Belgium
- Date:
- [after 1521]
- Language:
- French, with citations and margin notes in Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 269 leaves : paper ; 295 x 200 (230 x 150) mm bound to 305 x 210 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914
- Note:
- Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch); detached spine and upper cover; gilt spine with title Pawilhar.
Origin: Written in Liège, after 1521.
Title from spine.
Ms. codex.
Watermarks: Outer leaves depict a coat of arms with a horn and an inscription Holland; these outer leaves have no writing on them and are thinner than the leaves with text; leaves with writing have a crowned vase as a watermark.
Script: Written in a secretary script.
Incipit: Alyance defencive: nous pr[- -ost] soucy Archdiacre [et] chappittre nobles baron et bas[c]htau[x] burghemrie... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... et puis ainsy [ad] ma[n]date Cic[saric] et catholi[qu]e ma[jes]te ppri[m- -] ha[mm]art (f. 269v).
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 269 + xi (modern paper); 1-269; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 34 long lines; text block outlined in ink.
Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, headings, and paragraph marks; manicule (f. 120r); a full-page coat of arms with a double headed eagle holding two shields (f. 258v); the first shield, in the middle of the eagle's chest, depicts a lion on top of a red and white checkered board, the second shield with a white stripe in the middle of a red shield is held sideways by the eagle's tail.
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943226253503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zp3w45p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
