Details

Subjects:

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Summary:

With extensive prose commentary.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Hora est iam nos de somno surgere.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 41 + i (modern paper); [1-41]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 42 lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in the hand of Johannes [Kemp?] (the same scribe as that of Ms. Codex 730).
Decoration: Puzzle initials in red, green, and gold (f. 1r, 2r); rubricated throughout.
Binding: 19th-century half calf.
Origin: Written in southern Germany or Austria (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1422 (f. 40r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Charles W. Traylen (Guildford), 1962.

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. 38 (Ms. Latin 165).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 731.

OCLC:

212374857

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