University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 359
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1517
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 359
- Title:
- De reparatione lapsi hominis
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
- Place:
- Vicenza
- Date:
- 1456.
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 69 leaves : parchment ; 159 x 112 (98 x 68) mm bound to 162 x 110 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch and notes of bookseller H. P. Kraus).
Incipit of heading (f. 1r): Questo e el libro de san Zuanne vescovo de Constantinopoli scripto a Demetrio de la reparatione del anima lapsa ...
Incipit of text (f. 1r): Chi dara laqua al mio chavo et la fontana de le lagrime ali mei ochi ...
Foliation: Parchment, 69; [1-69]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Title and colophon in red.
Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards. Rebacked.
Origin: Written in Vicenza, Italy on 29 November 1456 (colophon, f. 69r).
Cover badly worn at spine. Some evidence of worm damage to boards. Front pastedown pulling loose. Some leaves badly stained. Ink faded or worn on some pages.
Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in the Library.
Donation plate from Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade (Archbishop of Ambrun and Bishop of Metz) to the Jesuit College of Metz, 1693 (inside front cover); ms. inscription of the same college (f. 1r); Giuseppe Martini collection.
Sold from the Martini collection to H. P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 95.
Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1960. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915809983503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3086360z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
