Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Devotional literature.
Prayer books.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.

Language:

Italian, with quotations in Latin.

Summary:

Devotional readings for the first Sunday of Advent through the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (not including Christmas Day), then for Septuagesima Sunday, Sessagesima Sunday, and Quinquagesima Sunday, followed by readings for the first Sunday of Lent through the sixth Sunday after Easter.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 50 + i (contemporary paper); [1-50]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 30 -35 long lines.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum with label on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by G. Battista Zandonella (inscription, upper cover).
Accessioned, 1963.

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. 134 (Ms. Italian 203).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 428

Contributor:

Zandonella, G. Battista, former owner.

OCLC:

155969040