Ms. Codex 840 Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris Ortographia
Title
Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris OrtographiaAuthors
- 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 PennsylvaniaLanguage
LatinOrigin
Written in Italy on 1 February 1460 (f. 4v).
- Date
- 1460
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Paper, 86; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.Support
PaperBinding
Contemporary vellum.Layout
Decoration
Illuminated initials in gold, blue, red, and green (f. 3r, f. 4v); rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.
Script
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
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Decoration: Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 3r
Decoration: Owner signature, f. 3r
Decoration: Owner stamp, f. 3r

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Decoration: Owner signature, f. 85v