Details

Subjects:

Council of Basel (1431-1449 : Basel, Switzerland).
Council of Basel.
Bible -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
Bible.
Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Christian ethics.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A moralizing commentary on Biblical figures from both the Old and New Testaments as well as a sermon presented at the Council of Basel in 1433.

Contents:

1. f.1r-249v: Moralia sunt figuris utriusque testamenti.
2. f.249v-254v: Sermo ad clerum in festo Iohannis evangeliste.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title of manuscript from explicit of predominant work (f.249v); title of sermon from incipit (f.249v).
Collation: Paper, iv + 254 + i; 1⁴ 2-8¹² 9¹⁰ 10-14¹² 15¹⁰ 16-22¹² 23⁶ 24²(-2); quires signed a-l, blank, m-n, n, r, B, t, x-y, y, blank; catchwords on lower right verso of last page of each quire; gatherings are sown into the binding with thin strips of parchment as guards; contemporary foliation in ink 1-164 upper right recto; modern pencil foliation 165-255 upper right recto.
Layout: Written in two columns of 40 lines, ruled in drypoint or lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script.
Watermark: Tower variation from sometime in the mid-15th century (f.7), with similarities to Briquet Tour 15908 (1449) and Tour 15913 (1469); watermark similar to Briquet Main 11146 (1481) (f.137); Briquet Anneau 689 (1457) (f.181); two variations (f.252, 254) of a watermark which combines Briquet Anneau, Main, and Fleur (cf. Briquet Main 11515 (1469)).
Decoration: 23-line initial with pen flourishing (f.1r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch) with metals studs on upper and lower cover, and leather straps; possibly red morocco binding (Witten).
Origin: Likely written in southeastern Germany in the mid-15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.

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. 30 (Ms. Latin 130).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1084

Contains:

Sermo ad clerum in festo Iohannis evangeliste.

OCLC:

182721709