University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1262

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS996

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1262

Title:

Literary miscellany.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1471?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some Greek

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 172 leaves : paper ; 185 x 150 (130-145 x 100) mm bound to 195 x 150 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), ca. 1471 (f. 150v). A later hand added the date 1483 (f. 120r).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a variety of humanistic cursive hands, in part by Gibertus (f. 25r).
Binding: Leather, possibly 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Layout: Written in about 20-25 long lines.
Foliation: Paper, 172 leaves; [1-172]: modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Decoration: Red initials, some decorated with faces, capitals stroked in red.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, cat. 22 (1971), no. 56.

Keyword:

annotations

Didactic poetry, Latin

Manuscripts, Latin

anthologies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Pastoral poetry, Latin

Old age

Rome (Empire)

Cynics (Greek philosophy)

Cardinal virtues

Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.

Epigrams, Latin

Proserpina (Roman deity)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944109083503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32f7jt23/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania