University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 680
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1584
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 680
- Title:
- Sermones dominicales
- Felton, John
- Place:
- Oxford?, England
- Date:
- 1450?
- Language:
- enm
lat
- Material:
- parchment, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 194 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 228 x 160 (154 x 100) mm bound to 240 x 165 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ingilby, William Henry, Sir, 1874-1952
Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Latin, with a poem in Middle English.
Title, attribution, and date supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Penuria studentium in materia morali paupertasque juvenum qui copia privantur librorum...
Foliation: Paper, 194; [iv], [1-190]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36 long lines; ruled in ink; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a semi-cursive Gothic script in a single hand, except for f. 189r-190v in a second hand.
Decoration: 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation and extensive rubrication throughout.
Binding: Modern leather.
Origin: Written in England, possibly Oxford, ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Felton's sermons exist in the following mss., Royal Ms. 8 BXII, Harleianen Mss. 537, 1327, 4238, Oxford, University College LXV, New College CCCV.
Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Sir William Henry Ingilby at auction at Sotheby's, 21 Oct. 1920, lot 153, to Maggs Bros.; appears in Maggs catalog 404 (1921), lot 15.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 61.
Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874663503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3222r817/manifest
- Holding Institution:
