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Title

Meditationes :

Authors

• Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 684
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874713503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122318292
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487471

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1469

Place

Rome

Summary

Copy of Ulrich Han's printed edition (1466 or 1467) of Torquemada's 34 meditations on topics such as the birth of Christ, baptism, the Passion, and the Trinity.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from f. 1r.
   
• Date from colophon, based on printed colophon with revised date (f. 27r): Ffinite sunt contemplaciones supradictae et continuatae Romae per Ulricum Han [Ulrich Han, printer in Rome] anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo nono die ultima mensis octobris.
   
• Worm hole damage to pages.
   

Extent

27 leaves : 273 x 202 (205 x 146) mm. bound to 281 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half-vellum.

Layout

Written in 31 long lines; ruled in ink and drypoint.

Decoration

Foliate borders and initials in blue, white, green, pink, brown, and gold (f. 1r, 2r, 4v, 5r, 6r), with some unfinished. Spaces left for initials and decoration in the remainder of the volume; guide letters visible; rubricated heading (f. 1r).

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand. Marginal notes indicating topics of meditations in a second hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Meditations--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Illumination
• Christian
• Italy
• Paper

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Illuminated border, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 2r
• fol. 4v — Decorated border (unfinished), f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial (unfinished), Initial O, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Decorated border, f. 6r