Vita S[anctae] Katharinae de Alexandria.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
13 leaves : parchment ; 314 x 215 (234 x 136) mm bound to 315 x 219 mm - Production:
- [Germany], 1458.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32t0w - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint.
Christian women saints -- Biography -- Early works 1800.
Christian women saints -- Biography. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Finding tabs.
Hagiographies (works)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Biographies. - Language:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- A biography of St. Catherine of Alexandria, who was famous for her great learning, and supposedly lived during the reign of the emperor Maxentius. A finding tab and the remains of another finding tab in red leather, f. 1r.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by Zacour-Hirsch.
Collation: Paper, 13; 1¹⁴(-1); modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in two columns, outlined in ink.
Script: Written in a secretary hand by Ysidorus (f. 1r); text on vellum binding in a Gothic book hand.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Tête de bœuf 14858 (1486).
Decoration: 4-line decorative initial (f. 1r), 2-line decorative initial (f. 3r), both in red; elaborately decorated initials in black, green, and red on upper and lower cover.
Binding: Vellum from a 14th-century missal, beginning with Ecclesiastes 24:28, with text and music.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1458 (f. 13r). - Penn Provenance:
- Accessioned, 1968.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 16 (Ms. Latin 238).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1172
- Contributor:
- Ysidorus, scribe.
- OCLC:
- 227796358