University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 290
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1486
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 290
- Title:
- La legenda di s[an]ct[i]ss[im]i Thebey soto Dioclitiano & Maximiano i[m]p[er]ato[r]i
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 14--
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 8 leaves : parchment ; 191 x 143 (131 x 92) mm bound to 199 x 146 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title from heading on f. 1r.
Incipit (f. 1r): Diocletiano essendo doppo Numeriano imperatore electo ...
Zacour-Hirsch treats the last section, Un altro miracolo che adopo idio per questi sancti martiri (f. 7r-v), as if it were a separate work contained in the manuscript, but it is clearly the final chapter of this account of the Thebaid Legion.
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 8 + i (modern paper); 18; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a 15th-century Italian humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Chapter titles in red; red and blue initials.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Leaves stained, some badly. Single quire starting to pull away from cover at bottom. Writing slightly rubbed on some leaves.
Acquired, 1959. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915809013503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3mp1v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
