University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1243
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS980
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1243
- Title:
- Liber mayor Prisciani de ordinatione partium orationis.
- Priscian, active approximately 500-530
- Place:
- Paris
- Date:
- [between 1250 and 1299]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 53 leaves : parchment ; 250 x 195 (129 x 97) mm bound to 262 x 195 mm
- Note:
- Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Origin: Probably written in Paris, late 13th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: 18th-century half vellum.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 53 + i (modern paper); i-liii; contemporary foliation in Roman numerals in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 31 lines; frame-ruled in lead, with main text written on alternate lines in text block and annotations, when present, written on every line in margins (for example, f. 51v).
Script: Written in a Gothic script, with annotations in a secretary script.
Decoration: Initials of 2-5 lines in blue and red ink; paragraph markers alternating in red or blue ink; chapter headings in margins in red ink; sketches in ink of a man (f. 14r), tree (f. 22r), and stag (f. 24r); manicules, some with decorated cuffs (f. 20v, 22v, 24r, 24v, 26v, 31r, 37r).
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by the monastery of Santa Maria de Carreto, 15th century (f. 53v).
Sold at auction at Hoepli, 21 May 1931, lot 75.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1965. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943751913503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3cc0tx26/manifest
- Holding Institution:
