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Title

Dubia

Authors

• Pergola, Paolo della, d. 1455
• Strode, Ralph, fl. 1350-1400
• Pergola, Paolo della, d. 1455

Other related names

• Chiriacus, de Fulgineo, scribe
• Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Ker, John Edgar, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 683
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615138
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487470

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1454

Place

Bologna

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.
   
• Some previous staining and damage due to mold.
   

Extent

80 leaves : 213 x 144 (141 x 92) mm. bound to 226 x 150 mm

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.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

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

Layout

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

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.

Script

Written in a cursive humanistic script by a single hand.

Colophon

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

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Logic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Illumination
• Logic
• Italian
• Italy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 6r — Dubia, f. 6r
• fol. 58r — Consequentiae, f. 58r
• fol. 72r — De sensu diviso et composito, f. 72r

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Owner signature, f. 1v
• fol. 6r — Owner stamp[?], f. 6r
• fol. 41r — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 41r
• fol. 41r — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 41r
• fol. 49r — Diagram, f. 49r
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 58r
• fol. 71v — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 71v