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Title

Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris Ortographia

Authors

• Porcellius, Johannes Antonius, ca. 1405-ca. 1485?

Other related names

• Parisino, D. Andreas, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 840
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931779833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122636239
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3177983

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1460

Place

Italy

Summary

Treatise on the part of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).
   
• Zacour-Hirsch treats full incipit as title and attributes the manuscript to Petrus Pandoni, a name for which there is a reference in the entry for Porcellius in Cosenza's Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists, 1962.
   
• Incipit: Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris ortographia incipit. Lege feliciter. Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir...
   
• Explicit: Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari. Porcelii poete clarissimi et oratoris ortografia explicit.
   

Extent

86 leaves : 167 x 117 (92 x 70) mm. bound to 167 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, 86; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Illuminated initials in gold, blue, red, and green (f. 3r, f. 4v); rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino, (signature, f. 3r, 83v, 85v).
   
• Sold by Immelen, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin language--Orthography and spelling--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Illumination
• Treatise
• Paper
• Italy
• Scribal manual

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Owner signature, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Owner stamp, f. 3r
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial, Initial T, f. 4v
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 12r
• fol. 42v — Manicule, f. 42v
• fol. 83v — Owner signature, f. 83v
• fol. 85v — Owner signature, f. 85v