University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 331

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1505

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 331

Title:

Miracoli e leggende

Religious texts

Place:

Tuscany?

Tuscany TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, in the Tuscan dialect

Italian WIKIDATA

Tuscan WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 61 leaves : paper ; 281 x 195 (203 x 155) mm bound to 290 x 200 mm

Former Owner(s):

Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914

Hermann Suchier WIKIDATA

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944

Giuseppe Martini WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Titles of individual items from headings, and from Zacour-Hirsch.
Origin: Written in the second quarter of the 15th century, probably in Tuscany (Zacour-Hirsch).
Script: Written in mercantesca script, probably by a single hand.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 36 lines; royal quarto format.
Collation: Paper, i (modern) + 61 + i (modern); 1-610 followed by the first leaf of a missing quire; early foliation in ink, 12-72, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, 1-61, upper right recto. Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower center last verso. References in this record are to modern foliation. Link to collation model at end of record.
Decoration: Red and blue initials. First initial (f. 1r) has red pen-drawn filigree ornamentation. Red used for headings.
Watermarks: Similar to Briquet, Lettre T 9127 (Naples, 1444).
Binding: Modern marbled paper over boards.
Paper stained and fragile. Some smudges. Edges of leaves frayed and worn; a few tears. Evidence of later repairs to the edges of some leaves. A few wormholes. Binding solid; cover shows only slight wear.
On file in the Library: three leaves of notes in the hand of G. Martini; bookseller's description on the stationery of H. P. Kraus (used in part for the item description in the present record).
Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (in Halle; bookplate, inside front cover), and Giuseppe Martini.
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, ca. 1948.
Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 127.
Sold by Kraus, 1960[?].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

hagiographies (literary genre)

anthologies

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Hagiography in literature

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Christian saints in literature

Italian literature

Fifteenth century

Catholic Church

Christian hagiography

To 1400

Devotional literature, Italian

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915809303503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p31g0hv6f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania