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[Treatise on the seven deadly sins].

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 915
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Language:
Latin
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Penn Provenance:
  • Sold by Maggs Bros. (London), 1962.
Physical Description:
10 leaves : paper ; 200 x 144 mm bound to 202 x 158 mm
Production:
[Germany?], [1500?]
Other Title:
De continentia sacerdotum.
Language Note:
Latin.
Summary:
A brief work on the seven deadly sins bound in after the printed text De continentia sacerdotum (Nuremberg: Weissenberger, 1510).
Contents:
Incipit (f. 1r): Est sciendum quod ista sunt septem peccata mortalia ...
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Foliation: Paper, 10; 1¹⁰; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
  • Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
  • Decoration: Red underlining and slashes in capitals (f. 7v-10r). The title page of the printed work is decorated with a woodcut of the Virgin Mary and St. Anne with the Christ Child.
  • Binding: Modern boards.
  • Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch), ca. 1500.
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. 44 (Ms. Latin 187).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 915.
OCLC:
155930797
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