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[In quatuor Evangelistas].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Michael, de Massa, -approximately 1337.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Matthew.
- Bible.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Deadly sins.
- Vices--Early works to 1800.
- Vices.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 100.
- Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.
- Physical Description:
- 138 leaves : paper ; 295 x 213 (222 x 138) mm bound to 302 x 214 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], [14--]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-49r: Glosa super Matheum.
- 2. f.49v-102v: Glosa super Lucam.
- 3. f.102v-123v: Tractatus de vitiis.
- 4. f.124r-136v: Tabula.
- 5. f. 137r-138r: De Vitiis [incomplete].
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Attribution to Michael de Massa (d. 1336) from inscription at heading (f. 1r).
- Other titles from Zacour-Hirsch, no attribution in text.
- Foliation: Paper, i + 138 + i; [1-138], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in ink.
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
- Decoration: Red ink used for initials, capital strokes, and underlining.
- Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards, remains of one clasp.
- Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- 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. 11 (Ms. Latin 48).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 697
- OCLC:
- 155985428
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