University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1253
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS989
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1253
- Title:
- Statutes.
- Università de' mercanti (Florence, Italy)
- Scribe:
- Oricoli, Roberto Celio degli
- Place:
- Florence
- Date:
- 1519-1547.
- Language:
- Latin and Italian
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 244 leaves : paper ; 280 x 212 (221 x 147 / 195 x 132) mm bound to 292 x 222 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Florence between 1519 (f. 70r) and 1547 (f. 225r).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 244; i (contemporary paper) + i (contemporary parchment) + 244 + i (contemporary parchment) + i (contemporary paper); [vi], 1-226, [227-238]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: Written in 24-26 long lines; vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead.
Script: Written in a late secretary script up to 1519 by Roberto Celio degli Oricoli, scribe (f. 70r), followed by later additions in multiple hands.
Decoration: Calligraphic initials (51v, 52r, 53v, 61r, 62v-63v, 65r, 66r-68r, 79r); decorated initials (f. 211r, 211v, 214v), some with faces (f. 1r, 22r, 79r), flower and heart pierced by an arrow (f. 225r); manicules (f. 3v, 9r, 23r, 27r, 29v, 52v, 56v, 59v, 120r, 138r, 145r, 162r, 181r, 201r).
Binding: Contemporary half leather with wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Watermarks: Similar to Briquet Ancre 433 (Laibach, 1525) throughout.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1959. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943862103503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ns0m243/manifest
- Holding Institution:
