University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1263

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS997

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1263

Title:

Confessione generale.

Place:

Tuscany?, Italy

Tuscany TGN

Date:

[1400-1450??]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, probably Tuscan, with some prayers in Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 30 leaves : parchment ; 222 x 145 (140 x 84) mm bound to 232 x 156 mm

Note:

Title from caption title for first part (f. 1r).
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in Tuscany, in the first half of the 15th century (Les Enluminures).
Ms. codex.
Binding: 19th-century morocco (Les Enluminures).
Script: Written in a rounded humanistic bookhand; some opening and closing words in Roman capitals.
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 30 + ii (modern paper); 1-3¹⁰; quires 1-3 signed a1-a5, b1-b5, c1-c5 in lower right recto, with some partly trimmed away; vertical catchword (f. 20 v); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; vertical bounding lines.
Decoration: Rubrics in faint red ink; 1-line initials and paragraph marks in blue throughout; space left for a 7-line and a 4-line initial marking the beginning of the two major sections (f. 1r, 11r).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Handbooks and manuals

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800

Monastic and religious life of women

Confession--Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944006193503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3hd62/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania