University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1203

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS962

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1203

Title:

Sermones a cena Domini usque ad vigiliam Paschae.

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[1420?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 74 leaves : paper ; 283 x 195 (230 x 130-142) mm bound to 290 x 210 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 74 + i (modern paper); [1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1420.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Alternate title from 19th-century description (f. ii recto).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35 lines, with vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script, with later notes in another hand (f. 74r-74v).
Decoration: Ink sketch of an initial S with flourishes (f. 1r); ink sketches of initials H and A with flourishes (f. 37v and 38r); small ink sketch of man, possibly in Roman garb, holding large sword attacking what could be a monster or wild animal (f. 62v); small manicules in margins throughout. There are many spaces for missing initials throughout.
Binding: 19th-century boards.
Incipit: Surgit a coena et ponit vestimenta sua (f. 1r). Explicit: ...qui pro nobis passus sit nobis via in vitam aeternam (f. 74r).
Gift of Richard W. Foster (sold by R. Wolfle, Munich), 1967.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

sermons

Early works

Catholic Church

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Sermons, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943226263503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3mp4vn96/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania