Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Traité de la virginité

Call number

Ms. Codex 977
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3634981
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3634981

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

17--

Place

France

Summary

A treatise on the good qualities of virgins and virginity, drawing upon the Bible and other Christian writings, particularly those of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (374-397). It consists of two parts - the excellence of virginity and the duties of virgins - with a preface. The second section, on duties, comprises the majority of the treatise.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   
• Pages 1-245: "[preface] St. Ambroise entreprenant de traiter de la virginité ... singulier dans le traité de St. Ambroise."
   

Extent

124 leaves : 190 x 125 (141 x 90) mm. bound to 195 x 132 mm

Foliation

Paper, 124 leaves; 1-248; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary gilt green parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 20-30 lines; frame-ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1966.
   

Subjects topical

• Virginity--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

  This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

  All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/