University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1267

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS999

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1267

Title:

Summa de vitiis.

Author:

Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271

William Perault WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

[between 1475 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 124 leaves : paper ; 280 x 215-225 (220 x 160) mm bound to 280 x 215 mm

Note:

Title from explicit of predominant work (p. 226).
Origin: Written in Germany in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a Bavarian Gothic cursive hand, with marginal notes in a different cursive hand.
Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with guards from 14th-century (Zacour-Hirsch), nails in the corners with flower-like imprints around them, and a leather tie with a metal clasp attached to the lower cover.
Incipit and explicit for Work 2: [p. 226] Arrogantia est gloriari Deo quod non acceperis placendi cupiditate; ... [p. 224] eternam Dei gloriam cum angelis dei perpetualiter possidere dignus efficietur.
Pagination: Paper, 124 leaves; [1-248]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns in 50 lines; ruled in lead.
Watermarks: Tower or column topped with a five-pointed crown (example on p. 244).
Sold by Gerald Rosen (1960), Berlin.
Previously owned by the monastery of Saint Pancras in Ranshofen (p. 243).

Keyword:

recipes

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Vices

Early works

Conduct of life

Virtues

Conscience, Examination of

Deadly sins

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944164213503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rr1pm5j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania