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Title

Rule

Authors

• Augustinians
• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Call number

Ms. Codex 687
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615145
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487475

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with French translation

Origin

Date

14--

Place

France

Summary

Augustinian rule, in six chapters, including a translation of each rule into French.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit regula Sancti Augustini (f. 1r).
   

Extent

28 leaves : 162 x 118 (125 x 80) mm. bound to 167 x 121 mm

Foliation

Parchment, iii (18th-century paper) + 28 + vii (18th-century paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century calf. Spine is cracked along front cover, which is nearly detached.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Illuminated initial A in gold, green, and pink (f. 1r); 2-line initials colored in green, blue, and pink throughout; red ink used for translations.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh (flyleaf, iii recto).
   
• Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.
   

Subjects topical

• Monasticism and religious orders--Rules

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• French
• Illumination
• Theology
• Devotion
• France

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 1r
• fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
• fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
• fol. 13r — Manicule, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Manicule, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Manicule, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Manicule, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Manicule, f. 15r
• fol. 17r — Manicule, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Manicule, f. 17v
• fol. 20v — Manicule, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Manicule, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Manicule, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Manicule, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Manicule, f. 23r
• fol. 25r — Manicule, f. 25r