University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1231

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS972

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1231

Title:

Works on civil law.

Author:

Cattani, Alberto

Alberto Cattani WIKIDATA

Place:

Siena and Pavia

Siena TGN

Date:

[1466-1468]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 227 leaves : paper ; 335 x 245 (262 x 125)mm bound to 355 x 250 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 227; [1-227]; some non-sequential contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Siena and Pavia, 1466-1468 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Colonne 4412 (Sienne, 1465) (for example, f. 89).
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Sketch of a face with initial A (f. 24r); manicules (f. 41r, 42r, 61r, 62v).
Script: Written in multiple Gothic cursive hands.
Layout: Written in 40-48 long lines.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Contemporary half leather over wooden boards, upper cover largely missing. Lower cover has remnants of two metal clasps, each with the image of a lamb and flag topped with a cross.
Formerly owned by Marques de Barbera y de la Manresa (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1960.

Keyword:

treatises

poems

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

lecture notes

codices (bound manuscripts)

Civil law

Italy

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943519123503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tm7250c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania