[Dubia].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pergola, Paolo della, -1455.

Contributor:

Chiriacus, de Fulgineo, scribe.

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Ker, John Edgar, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John Edgar Ker (signature, f. 1v).

Sold by Guglielmo Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 771.

Offered by William H. Robinson, Ltd., in catalog 78 (1949), no. 459, as a manuscript from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Sold by William H. Robinson, Ltd., 1949.

Physical Description:

80 leaves : parchment and paper, color illustrations; 213 x 144 (141 x 92) mm bound to 226 x 150 mm

Production:

[Bologna], 1454.

Language Note:

Latin.

Contents:

1. f.6r-57v: Dubia [lacking beginning] / Paolo della Pergola.

2. f.58r-71v: Consequentiae / Ralph Strode.

3. f.72r-74v: De sensu diviso et composito / Paolo della Pergola.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title, attribution and scribe from f. 57v and f. 74v: Hoc opusculum editum est per magistrum Paulum Pergulensem dubiorum compositorem scriptum a me fratre Chiriacu Defulgineo ordinis servorum sanctae Dei genetricis Mariae fulginei die quinto decimo kalendas decembris inventa eiusdem ordinis.

Date, place, and scribe from f. 71r: Hic liber est fratris Quiriaci defulginio ordinis servorum Sanctae Mariae Virginis Dei genetricis quem sexto kalendas decembris luna tertiadema millesimo quatragesimo quinquagesimo quarto a nativitate Domini Nostri salvatoris propria mea manu Bononie transcripsi.

Colophon for second work (f. 71r): Et sic est finis consequentiae ab eximo doctore magistro Strodo compilatatae.

Foliation: Paper and parchment, iv (modern paper) + 80 + iv (modern paper); [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right tecto. Every 5th-6th bifolium is parchment.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 38 lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script: Written in a cursive humanistic script by a single hand.

Decoration: Illuminated initials with botanical border decoration in gold, blue, green, and pink (f. 41r, 57r); 3-line red initials with pink penwork ornamentation and 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph marks throughout.

Binding: Contemporary [or 16th-century?] blind-stamped calf over wooden boards.

Origin: Written in Bologna in 1454 (f. 71r).

Some previous staining and damage due to mold.

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 16).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 683

Contains:

Strode, Ralph, active 1350-1400. Consequentiae.

Pergola, Paolo della, -1455. De sensu composito et diviso.

OCLC:

155985390