Details

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 15th century.
Italian literature.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

An anonymous translation of the Golden Legend different from translation used in early printed editions. Description of G. Martini calls it "volgarizzamento del sec. XIV."

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no title page.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 154 + i (modern paper); [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; older foliation partly cut off in binding.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 49 lines; ruled in ink with vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in cursive humanist script.
Decoration: Initials in red and blue with penwork decorations.
Binding: Half calf; upper and lower cover detached.
Origin: Written in Italy, April 19, 1459 (f. 154v).
Incipit: Questa e la tavola...(f. 1r); Questo sono i sermoni dell'avento di Christo e poi drie segue le legende di sancti de la corte di Roma...[Text:] Tutto il tempo della vita presente se destingue in quatro...(f. 5r).

Penn Provenance:

S. Maria Angelorum, Ferrara.
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini.
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, circa 1948.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 91.
Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 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. 135 (Ms. Italian 209).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 41, 176-77 (cat. 48).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 434.

Contributor:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155969175

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