University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 78
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1669
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 78
- Title:
- Miscellany of works on Catholic doctrine, canon law and religious life
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1450
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 179 leaves : paper ; 294 x 220 (170 x 93) mm bound to 297 x 228 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch and Andrew Little give the title: Registrum primi [-quarti] libri sententiarum.
Spine label gives Nikolaus Jauer as the main heading for the entire manuscript.
Colophon (f. 63v, 154v, 174r): Jo. Deo gratias alt.
Signatures: Arabic numerals, lower left corner, first recto of each quire.
Collation: Paper, 179; 1-26, 35, 4-146, 156(+1); [1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Some catchwords visible, lower right verso of last leaf of each quire. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive book script by many hands, with marginal comments in several contemporary hands.
Decoration: Rubricated capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and underlining throughout.
Watermark: Similar to Piccard V. vii. 429 (1470).
Binding: 15th-century German blind stamped brown calf over pasteboards, badly abraded, with cut marks on upper and lower covers.
Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Folio 13 is loose.
There is evidence of slight water damage.
Contains an old, unidentified shelf mark, E18 (f. 1r); purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1877.
Passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915806223503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3707wq9b/manifest
- Holding Institution:
