UPenn Ms. Codex 1059 Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative | | |
Author: Catholic Church
Title: Decretales Gregorii IX
Origin: France, between 1280 and 1299
Physical description: 361 leaves : parchment ; 320 x 180 (main text 166 x 88, gloss up to 292 x 165) mm. bound to 339 x 208 mm.
Summary: Compilation of canon law made by Raymond of Peñafort by order of Pope Gregory IX, with gloss by Bernardo Bottoni, concerning jurisdiction, civil legal processes, clerics and regulars, marriage, and criminal procedure. Diagrams of consanguinity and affinity are surrounded by text possibly adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de matrimonio.
Provenance: The name Maistre Jacques Dubont (?) appears among notes in 15th- and 16th-century French on the added leaf at the end of the volume; sold in the collection of the Rev. James Henthorn Todd (1805-1869), Regius Professor of Hebrew and Librarian at Trinity College, Dublin, by John Fleming Jones, Dublin, 1869; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps(1792-1872); Phillipps ms. 23022 (inside upper cover and f. 1); printed label inside upper cover: A. H. Spencer Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia; sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2007.
Layout: Main text written in two columns of 39 lines, surrounded by two columns of gloss of varying length.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand with the glossing script smaller and slightly less formal; annotations in a 14th-century English hand which also added cadels (as on f. 2-21, for example).
Decoration: Four penwork title panels and five large flourished initials (f. 3, 88, 158, 241, 262, no penwork panel on f. 241) in red and blue at the opening of the five books; two diagrams in red and black concerning consanguinity and affinity (f. 261v, 262r); running heading of book number in alternate letters of red and blue, paragraph marks in red and blue, one-line initials in red or blue stroked red, two-line initials of blue flourished red; small informal drawings of pointing hands, faces, or animals; some lightly glossed pages have gloss formed in patterns (as on f. 48r, 58r, 246r, 255v).
Binding: 18th-century half calf, spine in six compartments is gilt tooled but very worn (Fogg).
Contents: 1. f.3-88: Liber I, De iudice. 2. f.88-157: Liber II, De iudiciis. 3. f.158-240: Liber III, De vita et de honestate clericorum. 4. f.241-261: Liber IV, De sponsalibus et matrimoniis. 5. f.261v-262v: Tractatus de consanguinitate. 6. f.262v-356: Liber V, De accusationibus et inquisitionibus et denunciatoribus. |
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1070 | | |
Title: Genelogies of the Erles of Lecestre and Chester
Origin: England, ca. 1572-1573
Physical description: 20 leaves : paper ; 219 x 165 mm. bound to 223 x 170 mm.
Summary: Genealogy of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, tracing his descent from the earls of Leicester and Chester, beginning with individuals of the 11th and 12th centuries, and providing the heraldic devices of the principal members of these families. Although the genealogy may have been compiled in association with Robert Dudley's appointment as lieutenant of the Order of the Garter in 1572 or the birth of his illegitimate son in 1574, Robert Dudley is mentioned in the introduction but does not appear within the genealogy, as noted in a late 16th- or early 17th-century hand (f. 18r).
Provenance: Purchased by H. P. Kraus from a London book dealer before 1964; consigned by Kraus to Sotheby's, 1964; purchased by Madeleine Pelner Cosman at Sotheby's,1964; sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
Collation: Paper, 20; 19 2⁵⁺9 3⁸ 4⁴⁺9.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines, ruled in lead; double vertical and single horizontal bounding lines in pale red ink.
Script: Written in a hybrid secretary bookhand.
Decoration: Miniature of two knights bearing shields with the emblems of Leicester and Chester (f. 2r); 25 small and 2 large (f. 14v, f. 17v) heraldic shields of the descendants of the earls of Leicester and Chester; and an illuminated border throughout formed by the family tree that passes through the heraldic shields and roundels with the names of principal family members, painted in a naturalistic style with leaves resembling elm and oak foliage.
Watermarks: Briquet Lettre B 8077-8079 (1566-1580).
Binding: Contemporary stiff vellum with five cords sewn through and visible on spine and one cord now gone at tail of spine; holes for two missing ties on fore-edge of covers. |
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1058 Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative | | |
Title: Glossed psalter
Origin: Laon?, France, ca. 1100
Physical description: 109 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 90 (95 x 48) mm. bound to 141 x 100 mm.
Summary: The Book of Psalms with extensive, mostly unattributed, interlinear and marginal glosses, followed by canticles with glosses.
Provenance: Rebound and given the title Lectionnaire (f. 1r) in France in the 18th century; sold at auction at Christie's, 2 June 1999, lot 33; sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1348 (2007), no. 11.
Collation: Parchment, 109; 1-3⁸ 4⁸(-4, no loss of text) 5-7⁸ 8⁸(-5, no loss of text) 9-10⁸ 119⁰(gathering of 8 with additional bifolium sewn in) 12⁸ 1393 (gathering of 8 with 5 single leaves sewn in); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Layout: Psalms written in 22 lines, marginal glosses written in up to 58 lines; ruled in drypoint for psalms and glosses.
Script: Written in a late Carolingian minuscule; opening words of psalms and some headings in glosses in majuscules.
Decoration: Large (three-quarters page) opening initial (f. 1v) added ca. 1250, divided brown and red with penwork infill and surround in brown and red; initials and versal capitals added to early pages (ff. 2-16) in red, probably 13th c., otherwise left blank.
Binding: 18th-century French calf gilt. |
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1065 Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative with additional support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation | | |
Title: Bible
Origin: England (?), between 1240 and 1250
Physical description: 356 leaves : parchment ; 178 x 117 (130 x 84) mm.
Summary: Manuscript Bible with most of the prologues typical of a Paris Bible and the Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum following Psalms. Annotated with references to works of Albertus Magnus, the glossa ordinaria, and the Sentences of Peter Lombard, in a number of hands from the 13th through 15th centuries, likely by Dominican owners or readers.
Provenance: Sold in the collection of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (armorial bookplate inside upper cover, with shelfmark VI. H. b. 3) at auction by Evans (London) to Pickering, 31 July 1844; appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 328 (Jan. 1914), no. 556; sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 July 1933, lot 227; purchased by C. W. S. Dixon (Newport, Shropshire); sold by McLeish (London) to Charles E. Roseman, Jr. (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), 1933; sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
Collation: Parchment, 356; 1-1392 149⁶ 159⁰ 1692 172 1892 199⁰ 20-2492 25⁶ 2699(12-1) 27-3092 3192⁺9; catchwords on some quires; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 57-62 lines, except for the Interpretationes, which is written in 3 columns of 66-67 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic book hand.
Decoration: Approximately 77 painted initials, many with mythical and other creatures and marginal extensions, by the Gautier Lebaude Atelier or similar to the work of that workshop; opening initial of Genesis the full height of the page but damaged and repaired (f. 3v); sparse rubrication; running titles and marginal chapter numbers in alternately red and blue letters; 1-line initials alternately in red and blue in the Psalms and Interpretationes, and irregularly elsewhere. Later additions include pointing hands, faces, and sketches of the Crucifixion (f. 251r) and Christ pointing (f. 306r).
Binding: Pulled from an early 19th-century vellum binding, with gilt tooling and spine title Biblia sacra manuscripta.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1057 Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative | | |
Author: Catholic Church
Title: Psalter
Origin: Probably written in Trento, ca. 1350
Physical description: 272 leaves : parchment ; 116 x 75 (80 x 55) mm. bound to 125 x 95 mm.
Summary: Ferial psalter, containing the psalms divided into eight sections: seven for the psalms for matins through the week and the eighth containing all the psalms for vespers, accompanied by indications of invitatories, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and concluding with canticles, a litany and prayers. The eight sections are marked with illumination or penwork. The psalter is preceded by antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century and a 14th-century liturgical calendar including the feast day of Vigil, Bishop of Trent, and 17th-century entries for the deaths of members of the community of the abbey of Saint Walburga.
Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures (Chicago & Paris), 2007.
Collation: Parchment, 272; 1⁶ 2-2292 23⁶; quires 3-23 signed i-xxii in red on last verso, except quire 18 (xvi), where the lower margin of the last leaf has been repaired.
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 1-271, with two leaves marked 10; the foliation references in this record use the pencil foliation as it appears in the manuscript.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines (psalter).
Script: Calendar and main text written in a Gothic hand; first quire of antiphons and hymns, additions to calendar, and marginalia in later hands.
Decoration: Two historiated initials with painted initials with white tracery and painted ascenders and descenders with grotesques in the margins (ff. 15v, 182v); four 4- to 6-line painted initials in blue and red with openwork foliate motifs, decorated with red and blue penwork and grotesques (ff. 46v, 106r, 132v, 156v); two 2- to 3- line painted initials with red and blue penwork (ff. 67r, 86r); numerous 1- and 2- line initials alternating between red and blue; rubrics in red; handcolored engraving of St. Christopher pasted onto front pastedown.
Binding: Late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps.
Contents: 1. ff.1r-8v: Antiphons and hymns added in the 16th century. 2. ff.9r-13v: Calendar with 17th-century necrology. 3. ff.14r-229r: Ferial psalter. 4. ff.229v-245r: Canticles. 5. ff.245r-248r: Athanasian creed. 6. ff.248r-252v: Litany. 7. ff.252v-271v: Prayers and hymns.
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UPenn Ms. Roll 1066 Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative with additional support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation | | |
Title: Genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
Origin: London?, England, ca. 1461
Physical description: 1 roll (13 membranes) : parchment ; 1122.25 x 32 cm.
Summary: An illuminated chronicle tracing the descent of Edward IV from Adam, through Brut and Arthur (generally following the 12th-century account of Geoffrey of Monmouth), and the historical kings of England. The latest event in the text is the marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou in 1445 and the appointment of Edward's father, Richard, duke of York, as regent in France; the illustration of Edward IV as king must be from his accession in 1461 or later. On the verso (outer surface of roll) is the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi attributed to Peter of Poitiers, illustrated with drawings, followed by a diagram of Roman emperors and Christian popes.
Provenance: Previously sold by Philip Duchnes (New York); formerly in the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck, given to the Cincinnati Historical Society in 1966; sold at auction at Christie's (New York) as part of the Hauck Collection, 2006; sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2007.
Incipit: "Temporum summam lineamque descendentem ..."
Explicit: "Et tunc dominus Ricardus dux Ebor regens nationem francie."
Script: Written in an anglicana hand.
Decoration: 3 large roundels with tinted drawings of Adam and Eve, a T-O or tau world map, and Noah's ark (membrane 1); 3 mandorlas with tinted drawings of full-length figures (Brut, membrane 2; Claudius, membrane 5; Arthur, membrane 7); 14 medium roundels of bust-length kings and queens in color in frames of burnished gold linked by bands of burnished gold following a full-length portrait of William the Conqueror in a frame of burnished gold (membrane 12); about 160 small roundels with bust-length kings and queens in color; one roundel of the monogram of Jesus; yellow, green, and red bands linking roundels containing names or portraits. In text, rubrication, capitals touched yellow, numerous blue initials flourished in red, and 3 large initials with staves of burnished gold on divided grounds of pink and blue. On the verso, 9 roundels with tinted drawings (Noah harvesting grapes, sacrifice of Isaac, diagram of the sons of Jacob, David playing the harp, Zedekiah?, Jerusalem?, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and one illegible); red and blue bands linking yellow roundels with names; names of emperors and popes ringed in red. |
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UPenn Ms. Codex 713 | | |
Author: Catholic Church.
Title: Collection of hymns and antiphons
Origin: Written in France or Belgium (Zacour-Hirsch), 1400-1700
Physical description: 1 v. (178 leaves) : parchment, col. ill., music ; 16 cm.
Summary: Hymns, antiphons, a litany, etc. beginning with Audi Domine; including Hodie beata virgo Maria; Ave virgo stella maris; Magnificat; Adoramus te Christe; Homo quidam fecit; Exsurge domine; Parce ce domine, parce ce populo tuo; Lux perpetua; Pueri hebreorum and others; the earliest part of the manuscript ending with Inundaverunt; all with plain chant notation. Additions in later hands (ff. 136r-161r), include the Pange lingua; Anthiene de St. Roch [sic] (with music, incipit: Ave Roche); a prayer, Ora pro nobis beata pater Roche; Veni creator spiritus (without music); and an index to 88 hymns and antiphons in a 17th-century hand (ff. 166-167). Also includes: Repond que l'on chante ̀a la reception d'une nouvelle doÿenne, with plain chant notation in a 17th-century hand, f. [i].
Provenance: Robert de Mol, coat of arms dated 1566; De Noot[?] coat of arms; Bibliotheca Elseghemensis (bookplate); gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.
Collation: [v] paper; [vi-vii] parchment; 1-161 in arabic numerals written in two 17th-century[?] hands, [162-171] paper, last 3 ff. blank. There may be folios or quires missing between ff. 48-49 and 138-139.
Script: 15th-century portion (to f. 136) written in one hand on parchment, with red used for capitals; later additions on parchment and paper, in 4 or 5 additional hands.
Decoration: Includes 3 coats of arms painted in color; 2 in watercolor on paper, ff. [ii] and [iii], and an earlier coat of arms on parchment, f. [vii] dated 1566.
Binding: 17th- or 18th-century calf, splitting along spine.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 862 | | |
Title: Blancandin et l'Orgueilleuse d'Amour
Origin: Written in France in the late 13th or early 14th century (Sweetser)
Physical description: 126 leaves : parchment ; 156 x 110 (115 x 69) mm. bound to 166 x 124 mm.
Summary: The medieval French romance of Blancandin (spelled Blanchardin in this manuscript) and his lady, Orgueilleuse d'Amour, written in octosyllabic couplets. Approximately 400 lines at the beginning and 600 lines at the end are missing.
Provenance: Purchased from E. P. Goldschmidt, 1953.
Foliation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 126 + ii (modern paper); folios unnumbered.
Layout: Written in single columns of 22 lines (except f.33r and 33v, which have 24).
Decoration: Red and blue 2-line initials alternate at irregular intervals, usually with flourishes of the contrasting color.
Binding: Morocco (Zacour-Hirsch); front and back covers detached from spine.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 902 | | |
Title: Chansonnier
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1400 (Zacour-Hirsch)
Physical description: 1 v. (101 leaves) : parchment ; 30 cm.
Summary: Collection of 310 poems by Guillaume de Machaut, Oton de Grandson, Brisebare de Douai, Eustache Deschamps, Philippe de Vitry, and others.
Provenance: Leo S. Olschki; purchased from Laurence Witten, 1954.
Collation: a-h8 (i-m8, n6-1).
Foliation: [i], 1-68, 68-98 [99-100], [i] in black ink, upper outer corner, in the later hand of the compiler of the incomplete index (f. 97r).
Script:Written by several similar cursive hands, in two columns, 36-38 lines, in brown ink with red used for headings and capital strokes, with a few decorated initials and one face, f. 1r.
Binding: modern leather, "French lyric poetry Machaut Grandson" on spine.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1056 Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative | | |
Author: Catholic Church
Title: Book of hours, use of Rouen
Origin: Written and illuminated in Rouen, ca. 1475
Physical description: 122 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 184 x 120 (98 x 61) mm. bound to 192 x 138 mm.
Summary: Book of hours produced in Rouen and illuminated for a local woman, including calendar, Office of the Virgin, Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, and two accessory texts.
Provenance: Madame Lespect (Rouen, 16th century, inscription, f. 13); Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourette (Lyons, 1692-1776, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1719 inside upper cover); Daniel-Marie, duc de Montfort (inscription, f. i); Dionysiĭ Vasilevich (modern inscription, f. i); sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), 2007.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (parchment) + 120 + i (parchment); 192 2⁹ (+ 1, f. 13, before 1) 33 4-8⁸ 92 10-15⁸ 169⁶.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines; frame-ruled in red ink; prickings in outer margin of some leaves.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand (textualis quadrata).
Decoration: 15 arched miniatures above three lines of text with three-line initials, with full borders (evangelists, f. 14r; Annunciation, with roundels of Adam and Eve with the serpent, the meeting of Mary's parents at the Golden Gate, and the marriage of Mary and Joseph, f. 25r; Visitation, f. 34r; Nativity, with roundels of shepherds with musical instruments and the Tiburtine Sibyl showing a vision of the Virgin and Child to Augustus, f. 45r; angel and shepherds, f. 49v; Magi, f. 52v; presentation in the Temple, f. 55r; flight into Egypt, f. 57v; coronation of the Virgin, f. 62v; King David and the prophet Nathan, with roundels of David and Goliath and the Last Judgment, f. 67r; Crucifixion, f. 83r; Pentecost, f. 86r; Three Living and Three Dead, with roundels of the Harrowing of Hell and a burial, f. 89r; Mary holding the crucified Christ and witnessed by John the Evangelist, women mourners mentioned in the Gospels, and a 15th-century woman representing the manuscripts owner, with a roundel of the Trinity, f. 114r; and the Trinity, f. 118r). 24 calendar miniatures in side borders alternating between labors and Bible stories (Janus feasting, f. 1r; baptism of Christ, f. 1v; man by a fireplace, f. 2r; Jonah and the whale, f. 2v; pruning vines, f. 3r; Abraham and Isaac, f. 3v; man and woman in garden, f. 4r; Noah's ark, f. 4v; man and woman on horseback, f. 5r; creation of Eve, f. 5v; haymaking, f. 6r; Job, f. 6v; reaping, f. 7r; Daniel and lions, f. 7v; threshing, f. 8r; Assumption of the Virgin, f. 8v; treading grapes, f. 9r; money changers, f. 9v; sowing, f. 10r; Pharoah and army in Red Sea, f. 10v; feeding pigs, f. 11r; St. Catherine, f. 11v; slaughtering a pig, f. 12r; baking, f. 12v). Full-page foliate and floral borders with four-line initials on burnished gold grounds for the first pages of Obsecro te and O intemerata (ff. 18v, 21). Side borders of acanthus and flower sprays, some on divided grounds of liquid gold, on all text pages. Calendar alternates between red and blue, with red-letter days in gold, typical of a Rouen calendar. Rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow. One-line initials in gold on grounds of blue or pink patterned with white; similar line endings; two- and three-line initials blue patterned with white on burnished gold with foliate infills of orange, blue, and white.
Binding: 16th century, early; brown calf over wooden boards, blind-stamped with a panel of St. Barbara on the upper cover between the inscription Sancta Barbara/ora pro nobis and a panel of John the Baptist on the lower cover between the inscription Ung dieu sancte Johannes ung roy une foy/ora pro nobis une loy; attachments for two clasps; joints restored (Fogg).
Contents: 1. ff.1r-12v: Calendar. 2. f.13: Ruled blank with inscription and prayer added in a 16th-century cursive hand. 3. ff.14r-18v: Gospel lessons. 4. ff.18v-21r: Obsecro te. 5. ff.21r-24r: O intemerata. 6. ff.25r-66r: Office of the Virgin, use of Rouen. 7. ff.67r-82v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany. 8. ff.83r-85v: Hours of the Cross. 9. ff.86r-88v: Hours of the Holy Spirit. 10. ff.89r-113v: Office of the Dead, use of Rouen. 11. ff.114r-117v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (Doulce Dame). 12. ff.118r-120v: Seven Requests to Our Lord (Doulx Dieu).
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UPenn Ms. Codex 850 | | |
Title: Collection of French poetry
Origin: Written in Rouen in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch); spine date 1523, last date in text 1560 (p. 100, 122)
Physical description: 79 leaves : paper ; 199 x 145 (138 x 95) mm. bound to 207 x 154 mm.
Summary: A collection of 16th-century French poetry, including ballades and rondeaux, by Adrien de Saint-Gelais, Anne de Graville, André de la Vigne, Richard de la Porte, and Jean Marot, with additions perhaps by Robert de la Porte, son of original owner Richard de la Porte (Zacour-Hirsch).
Provenance: La Porte family, 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch); sold in the collection of Baron Jérôme Pichon at auction at Hôtel Druot, May 1897, catalogue vol. 1, no. 893; purchased from Pierre Berès, 1953.
Foliation: Paper, i + 77 + i; modern pencil pagination, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in a single column of up to 21 lines; frame-ruled in ink with double verticals.
Decoration: First two poems start with a 2-line initial, one in red and one in blue; thereafter there are spaces and guide letters for initials which were never added. Calendar chart on p. 100.
Binding: 19th-century blind-stamped calf; front cover detached.
Contents: 1. pp.1-[42]: Les troys buccines c'est assavoir: foy, charite, et esperance / Adrien de Saint-Gelais. 2. pp.43-49: Le moyen d'avoir paix en France (ballade). 3. pp.51-[65]: Six rondeaux, with authors such as Anne de Graville, André de la Vigne, Richard de La Porte, and Jean Marot. 4. pp.67-[72]: Two ballades, one attributed to either Villon or Alain Chartier. 5. pp.73-[152]: 14 pieces in verse and prose, including a prophecy by Paul Paradiso.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 146 | | |
Title: Repartimientto de las tierras de Écija quando segano delos moros
Origin: Écija (Andalusia), late 13th century.
Physical description: 1 v. (19 leaves) : paper ; 30 cm.
Summary: Two lists containing the names of persons who received land by order of the king in the neighborhood of Écija in Andalusia which was taken from the Moors in 1240. Among them are men and women of the royal court, e.g. ladies in waiting of the queen (f. 1v). The first list (ff. 1-11) lists property holders divided by villages. The second list was made by order of King Alfonso X and his queen Violante (ff. 14-17). Before it is inserted a document (f. 12) dated "era de mill ccc xx vii," the old Spanish date corresponding to the year 1289. This states that this copy was made from a charter of Alfonso X given at Seville, 2 May, 1282. Folio 13 is blank. (According to Zacour-Hirsch, this list is apparently a version of that of 1263.)
Provenance: Acquired, 1960.
Foliation: [i], 1-17, [i]; contemporary roman numerals, upper right recto. The first and last leaf are endleaves added when the manuscript was bound in the 17th century.
Script: The two sections are on paper of slightly different size and are in different hands.
Decoration: Partly rubricated in red and blue.
Binding: limp vellum, 17th century.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 144 | | |
Author: Teruel (Spain)
Title: Letra missa per Dominicum Caberico[?] per quendam nuncium ...
Origin: Teruel (Aragon); August, 1387
Physical description: 1 v. (8 leaves) : paper ; 23 cm.
Summary: Carta publica, notarized on f. 7r.
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten, New Haven, CT, 1959.
Foliation: 1-8. No page or folio numbers.
Binding: Leaves sewn as a quire; no cover. In modern folder.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 163 | | |
Title: Sentenzia arbitraria ... [por] los conzejos de Quintana[?] y Valdenozeda y Lapuente
Origin: Valdenoceda[?] (province of Burgos, Spain), ca. 1450
Physical description: 1 v. (8 leaves) : parchment ; 26 cm.
Summary: Spanish notarial document.
Provenance: Acquired, 1958.
Foliation: [i], 1-7. No page or folio numbers. Folio [i] is the front cover.
Decoration: Three initials on f. 1r in red. Notarial signets in ink at bottom of each page.
Binding: Outermost bifolium (= f. [i] and 7) used as cover.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 150 | | |
Title: Ymbenttario delos bienes de D[o]n Die[go] de Anaya
Origin: Salamanca; 21 November and 21 December 1540
Description: 1 v. (19 leaves) : paper ; 30 cm.
Summary: Inventory of the property of Don Diego de Anaya (Enriques de Funto), in the presence of Pedro Garabito (f. [i]r). The Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue identifies Don Diego de Anaya as Enriques de Funto. All items are carefully listed with their respective value written neatly into the margins. With archival indexing. Consists of two documents bound together, dated 21 November and 21 December 1540.
Provenance: Acquired, 1959.
Foliation: [i], 1-8, 1-10. No page or folio numbers. The first leaf (f. [i]) is a later (17th century?) half-leaf sewn together with the rest of the manuscript, describing the contents in the hand of a registrar.
Binding: Sewn; no cover.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 201 | | |
Title: New Testament in the translation of John Wycliffe
Origin: England; late 14th-early 15th century
Physical description: 1 v. (239 leaves) : parchment ; 20 cm.
Summary: Also includes poems and other scriptural, liturgical and devotional works.
Provenance: Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells (autograph on f. 1r); T. Edward Ross (bookplate).
Collation: I2, II-XXVIII⁴, XXIX⁴ (-1), XXX⁵, XXXI9.
Foliation: No overall pagination or foliation. Individual books of the New Testament paginated independently in a later hand.
Script: The text of the New Testament is written in a single hand. Many of the other portions are written in different hands, all varieties of Anglicana script.
Marginal glosses in Old English and Latin on ff. 42v, 46v. and 212r.
Decoration: Extensive use of red for headings and filigree; blue for capitals.
Binding: 16th-century calf, with a gilded design.
Contents: Selections from a Wycliffite Floretum or Rosarium (f. 1v); a collection of authorities, including Bernard, Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, and Sts. Peter and Paul, on matters of priestly behavior; inc.: I wonder sei~ Sent Bernard of what order ben oure clerkis for in gedering of worldly goodis ~ey ben as lewed men (ff. 1v-3v); a Middle English moral poem; inc.: Whanne ~ou art stered to don amys bihold ~isilf and ~enk on ~is (f. 4r); New Testament in the translation of John Wycliffe (ff. 5r-226v); a short Latin explanation of why the priest prays before distributing the sacrament; inc.: Sacerdos ad digne sumendum corpus (f. 226v); fragment of Middle English homiletic treatise Memoriale Credencium (f. 226v); six verses from the Gospel of John, Chap. 1 (f. 227v); a calendar of the lessons [Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year, after the use of Salisbury] (ff. 228r-236r); a nine-line poem in Latin hexameters [four lines conform to Hans Walther, Initia Carminum Versuum Medii Aevi Posterioris Latinorum, no. 6348] (f. 237r); list of the names of all the books of the Bible; another group of extracts from a Floretum, with summaries of various books of the New Testament (ff. 238r-239r).
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UPenn Ms. Codex 198 | | |
Title: A Myrour to lewde men and wymmen
Origin: Written in northern Gloucestershire or southern Worcestershire, first half of the 15th cenitury
Physical description: 1 v. (167 leaves) : parchment, col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Summary: Prose version of the Speculum vitae, related to B. L. MS Harley 45 (according to E. V. Stover).
Provenance: Appears in Thomas Thorpe's 1830 catalog, no. 13952, and 1832 catalog, no. 831; sold at Sotheby's, 6 Dec. 1937, lot 957;
purchased, 1949.
Script: Written in one hand, Latin words within the text and Latin marginal notations are in red. Some additional marginal notes are in 17th to 19th century hands.
Collation: 1-168 in pencil in a modern hand, upper outer corner; f. 137 has been cut out.
Decoration: Decorated border on f. 1r in blue, magenta, green, and gold; with 91 illuminated initials in blue, gold, and magenta throughout text; also illustrated with 11 delicate pen-and-ink drawings in the margin, depicting seven eyes opposite the seven "cleer sightes" for attaining the virtue of equity (f. 48r-v), a moneybag for avarice (f. 62r), a fish being hooked (f. 95r), and a worm (f. 113r), among others.
Binding: 18th-century calf, with paper endleaves contemporary with the binding, three in front and three in back; both covers are completely detached.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1071 | | |
Title: The names and armes of all the nobilitie who were in England at the tyme of K[ing] W[illia]m the Conqueror
Origin: Written in England in 1597
Physical description: 96 leaves : paper ; 285 x 186 (239 x 174) mm. bound to 298 x 207 mm.
Summary: Coats of arms, some painted and some drawn in ink, for the monarchs and nobles of England from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth I, accompanied by names, titles, descriptions of the coats of arms, and sometimes short biographies. Sections for each monarch include the principal nobility who held titles or were given titles during the reign of that monarch. A contemporary index divides the names of the individuals included according to their first letter but then lists the names beginning with each letter in order of appearance (f. 88-90). Two smaller pages of notes perhaps associated with the compilation of this manuscript, one concerning the heirs of Richard Woodvile, Earl of Rivers, including the Lords of Stanley, and the other on financial holdings and properties of various families, are tipped in (f. 92v, f. 93v).
Provenance: Previously owned by Sir Robert Dallas (note from Simmons and Waters Booksellers to John Alexander Stewart, f. 94v); purchased in 1921 by John Alexander Stewart (1846-1933 if the professor at Oxford University); armorial bookplate, Sigillum Johannis Alexandri Stewart, with pelican piercing breast and motto Sanguine suo, inside upper cover); and previously owned by Henry Clark Stewart (armorial bookplate, Henry Clark Stewart of Inchmahome, with pelican piercing breast and motto Sanguine suo, on first flyleaf); sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
Collation: Paper, 96; ii (modern paper) + iv (contemporary ruled paper) + 84, [85-94] + ii (modern paper); contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Foliation: modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Ruled in brown and red ink for a wide inner column for text and a narrower outer column for illustration; running heads at the top of the text column follow the progression of monarchs.
Script: Written in a late Elizabethan secretary script, with a larger calligraphic script used for the names of monarchs.
Decoration: 509 coats of arms (307 painted, 164 drawn in ink, 38 blank); one large calligraphic initial (f. 1r).
Watermark: Briquet 12772, Pot à une anse (Amiens, 1598).
Binding: 20th-century half leather with leather label for title on upper cover, Heraldic manuscript, 1597.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 273 | | |
Author: Aristotle
Title: Ethics [abridged]
Origin: Italy, not after 1356?
Physical description: 1 v. (71 leaves) : parchment, col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary: Epitome of Aristotle's Ethics (both the Nicomachean and the Eudemian, or Great Ethics) from Brunetto Latini's Livres dou tresor, translated from Latin to Italian by Bono Giamboni (or, possibly, Taddeo de Florentia). At the end (f. 66r) is a list of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire. According to the notes of Laurence Witten, bookseller, Brunetto Latini inserted his Latin epitome of Aristotle's Ethics into his Tresor, written in exile in France between 1262 and 1266. Not long afterward this version was translated into Italian, perhaps by Bono Giamboni or perhaps by a certain Taddeo de Florentia. (There is another manuscript of ca. 1350 where the translation is ascribed to Thaddeo; the texts are similar, but there are many variants, some of them serious.) According to Witten's notes, the list of electors as given on f. 66r describes the electors before the Golden Bull of 1356. After 1356 the electorships were held by different lay princes fromn those listed on f. 66r. This manuscript, therefore, was probably written before that date.
Provenance: Acquired, 1959.
Collation: 1, [i]9, I⁴(-1), II-VIII⁴, IX3(-1). The first leaf is the front endleaf and is conjugate with the front pastedown. The original f. 1 was lost or mutilated at an early date and was replaced about 1450 by another leaf written in a rather rough hand. This first leaf of text is conjugate with a blank standing before it.
Foliation: [ii], 1-69; modern pencil arabic numerals, upper right recto. The back pastedown is numbered f. 70.
Incipit: Ogne arte et ogne doctrina et ogne operatione et ogne electione ... (f. 1r).
Script: Written in a large "gotica cancelleresca" hand. In the same hand except for f. 1, which is a later addition.
Decoration: Large decorated initial, in red and blue, on f. 1r. Red used throughout for headings; red and blue used for highlights, initials.
Binding: blind-stamped dark brown morocco, probably Florentine, ca. 1450 (perhaps contemporary with the replaced f. 1); gilt rondels and clasps missing.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 243 | | |
Author: Aristotle
Title: Leticha: del magnio [sic] filosefo [sic] Aristotile [sic]
Origin: Written in Italy, 15th century, in one hand
Physical description: 1 v. (35 leaves) : paper, col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Summary: Italian summary of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics.
Provenance: Gift of Dr. Charles W. Burr, 1938.
Collation: [i], I⁶(+1), II⁵, III⁵, [i].
Foliation: [i], 1-33, [i]; contemporary arabic numerals, upper right recto. The unnumbered leaves at the beginning and end are endleaves that are contemporary with the cover.
Decoration: Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit. Two of the initials, on ff. 1r and 15v, have a small coat of arms in the center. Headings to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green.
Binding: modern half vellum.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 319 | | |
Author: Martinozzi, Benedetto.
Title: Gli amori di Tibullo e Glicera
Origin:Italy, between 1475 and 1525?
Physical description: 1 v. (20 leaves) : parchment, col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Biographical note: Participant in the political life of Siena in the second half of the 15th century, with the title eques aratus; owner of a library of manuscripts.
Summary: Prose work consisting of a set of dialogues between Tibullus and Glicera (ff. 1r-12r). Also includes a second work by the same author: "Opusculum ... in amorem quo ratio ac apetitus loquentes inducuntur" (ff. 12v-20v). This work is in verse (400 lines) and consists of a dialogue between Reason and Appetite.
Provenance: Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside front cover); sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 492; purchased, 1925.
Collation: 1-20; modern pencil arabic numerals, upper right recto. Also includes two marbled-paper endleaves, one front and one back.
Incipit: First work (f. 1r): Essendo purissima fanciulla stato per li tempi passati nella citta nostra con maximo excidio assalito Tibullo Giovano generoso & praeclaro ... Second work: heading (f. 12v): "Opusculum Benedicti Martinozzi aequitis aurati in amorem quo ratio ac apetitus loquentes inducuntur"; incipit (f. 12v): Per allentar lo immaginato exilio / Che amor contanto sforzo tiene elcore / Nel tempestoso mar senza navilio / ...
Script: Humanist bookhand. Entire manuscript in a single hand.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in blue, green, white, gold, etc. Red used for headings, etc.
Binding: 18th-century vellum.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 738 | | |
Author: Catholic Church
Title: Book of Hours
Origin: Northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (according to Philip E. Webber)
Physical description: 1 v. (158 leaves) : parchment, col. ill. ; 17cm.
Summary: Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrecht, translation of Geert Groote.
Provenance: James Laurie; Paul-Louis Feiss (bookplates); sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 15 Dec. 1953 (catalog 1487), lot 390; acquired through Lathrop C. Harper, 1956.
Foliation: No contemporary foliation, some folios numbered in pencil in a modern hand; 3 unnumbered paper endleaves in front.
Incipit: Hier begint onser wrouwen ghetide, f. 13r.
Layout: Written in one column of 20 lines, rubrics in red, alternating red and blue capitals, illuminated borders and initials, in blue, pink, and gold.
Decoration: Illuminated historiated initials with illuminated borders on ff. 13r (Madonna and Child), 47r (Gregorian Man of Sorrows), 75r (Christ in the attitude of Benediction), 95r (Pentecost), 111r (The Last Judgment), and 127r (Hell's Mouth); initial on f. 69r appears to be unfinished.
Binding: Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, back cover detached.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 991 | | |
Title: Lantrecht van Zallant, va[n] Twenthe, van Vullenhoe, van Drenthe, mit anderen priviligien des landes van Overijssel
Origin: Written in the Netherlands, ca. 1546.
Physical description: 93 leaves : parchment ; 205 x 155 (155 x 105) mm. bound to 213 x 165 mm.
Summary: Copies of laws, rights, and privileges dating between 1380 and 1546 concerning the province of Drenthe and the communities of Salland, Twente, and Vollenhove in the province of Overijssel, all in the Netherlands. A detailed table of contents by the archivist of Drenthe, dated 1890, is laid in.
Provenance: Purchased in 1962.
Collation: Parchment, 93; 12 quires.
Foliation: modern pencil.
Decoration: Underlining, paragraph marks, and marginal section numbers in red; 2-line initials in red or blue mark the beginning of a new document.
Binding: Vellum (Hirsch) with a flap held closed by a metal clasp.
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UPenn Ms. Codex 1098 | | |
Title: Documents of the town of Châtenois
Origin: Written in Châtenois, France, from 1478 through 1832
Physical description: 152 leaves : paper ; 318 x 200 mm. bound to 335 x 218 mm.
Summary: Book of documents (Copialbuch; Urkundenbuch) of the town of Châtenois (German, Kestenholz), in the département of Bas-Rhin, region of Alsace, France. At the time that the book was begun, in 1478 (f. 1r), the town was in the possession of the archbishop of Strasbourg. The documents include oaths and regulations (Ordnungen) governing citizenship and various offices or professions; several agreements, notices, or petitions; and the recording of supervisors of the fields (Bannwarten, Rebbannwarten) and the prices of wine (Weinschlag), entered annually until 1762 (f. 151v) and 1788 (f. 142v), respectively. The last entries (ff. 153r-154r) are mostly in French and record taxes on (or prices of?) wine from 1789 to 1832.
Provenance: Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.
Collation: Paper, fol. 148 + iv.
Foliation: contemporary, upper right recto, as follows: 1-42, 44-94, [i], 95-114,121-154 (ff. 103-105, 121, 122, 131, and 152 are blank).
Layout: Written in long lines, with varying line-spacing and margins.
Script: Written in multiple German cursive hands.
Decoration: Some initial flourishes and some headings in more formal book script throughout, with some instances of more embellished initials (ff. 58r, 58v, 59r, 65v, 66r, 66v, 132v, 133r, 139r, 140r).
Binding: 16th-century half-pigskin over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
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UPenn Ms. Codex 109 | | |
Title: Feuer Buech
Origin: Germany, 1584
Physical description: 1 v. (237 leaves) : paper, col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Summary: Treatise on munitions and explosive devices, with many illustrations of the various devices and their uses.
Collation: [i], [I, II]-[XIX, XX], XXI2, [XXII-XXIII]-[XXVIII-XXIX]; 3, XXX;(-1), [i]; i.e., alternating quires of 3 and 5, except for quire XXI2 and quire XXX;(-1). First and last leaf are endleaves.
Foliaion: [i], [1], 2-236; modern pencil arabic numerals, upper right recto.
Script: Cursive.
Decoration: Thirty-four illustrations in color, two of which (ff. 159v and 160v) are pasted in, possibly cut from another manuscript (the paper is of a different quality, the color palette is different, and ascenders from another hand are visible at the bottom of the illustration on f. 159v). Extensive rubrication.
Binding: limp vellum, with three concentric botanical borders, and stamp in center of from cover with the arms of Freiherr von Clam. Sewn on five split bands, with decorative endbands. Vellum completely split at upper hinge, spine and sewing exposed.
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