University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 434

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1528

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 434

Title:

Legenda aurea

Golden Legend

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Jacobus de Voragine WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1459.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 154 leaves : paper ; 228 x 155 (188 x 115) mm bound to 235 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944

Giuseppe Martini WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no title page.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 154 + i (modern paper); [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; older foliation partly cut off in binding.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 49 lines; ruled in ink with vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in cursive humanist script.
Decoration: Initials in red and blue with penwork decorations.
Binding: Half calf; upper and lower cover detached.
Origin: Written in Italy, April 19, 1459 (f. 154v).
Incipit: Questa e la tavola...(f. 1r); Questo sono i sermoni dell'avento di Christo e poi drie segue le legende di sancti de la corte di Roma...[Text:] Tutto il tempo della vita presente se destingue in quatro...(f. 5r).
Formerly held in the library of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Ferrara.
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini.
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, circa 1948.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 91.
Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1963.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Italian literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924866043503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p32805089/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania