Details

Subjects:

Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin, with French translation.

Summary:

Augustinian rule, in six chapters, including a translation of each rule into French.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit regula Sancti Augustini (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, iii (18th-century paper) + 28 + vii (18th-century paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.
Decoration: Illuminated initial A in gold, green, and pink (f. 1r); 2-line initials colored in green, blue, and pink throughout; red ink used for translations.
Binding: 18th-century calf. Spine is cracked along front cover, which is nearly detached.
Origin: Written in northeast France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh (flyleaf, iii recto).
Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.

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. 4 (Ms. Latin 11).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 687.

Contributor:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Related Work:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Regula.

OCLC:

155985402

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