Details

Other Title:

Sermones et miscellanea rhaeto romanica.
Anonymous sermons.

Subjects:

Protestantism -- Sermons.
Protestantism.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Romance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Raeto-Romance (a.k.a. Rhaeto-Roman, Romansch); one sermon in German.

Summary:

Anonymous sermons. The last two (unnumbered) folios contain a Register.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title in Zacour-Hirsch: Anonymous sermons. Modern title note inside upper cover: Sermones et miscellanea rhaeto romanica.
Pagination: Paper, 288; [ii], 1-570, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Text covers virtually the entirety of each page, leaving no outer margin and virtually no gutter.
Script: Written in what appears to be several different cursive hands.
Binding: Contemporary calf. Stains; possibly some oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Switzerland in the 18th century.
Single manuscript leaf, also in Raeto-Romance, laid into the codex inside the back cover. Measures 17 x 11 cm.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Acquired, 1960.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 136 (Ms. Rhaeto-Roman 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 136

Contributor:

Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914, former owner.

OCLC:

155962647