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De vita christiana.

Author/Creator:
Pseudo-Augustinus.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
12 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (167 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 153 mm
Production:
[Germany], 1467.
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Subjects:
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Spurious and doubtful works.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Spiritual life -- Christianity.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Spurious and doubtful works.
Summary:
Copy of De vita christiana.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from f. 2v: Incipit liber Sancti augustini de vita christiana.
Date from f. 11v: Explicit liber sancti augustini de vita christiana, anno lxvii.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36-38 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script possibly in the hand of Frater Rudolphus Rasser Donatus (inscription, f. 2v-3r).
Decoration: Some use of red for initials and capitals.
Binding: Modern half-vellum.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1467 (f. 11v).
Penn Provenance:
Possible ownership inscription of Frater Rudolphus Rasser Donatus (f. 2v-3r).
Formerly held at the Carthusian monastery in Brixen (f. 2r).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 14 Apr. 1930, lot 112.
Sold by Symmachus, 1953.
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. 10 (Ms. Latin 41).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 692
Contributor:
Donatus, Rudolphus Rasser, former owner.
OCLC:
155985413