De vita christiana.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pseudo-Augustinus.

Contributor:

Donatus, Rudolphus Rasser, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Spurious and doubtful works.

Augustine.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Spiritual life--Christianity.

Spiritual life.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Spurious and doubtful works.

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.

Physical Description:

12 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (167 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 153 mm

Production:

[Germany], 1467.

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).

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

OCLC:

155985413