Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 684: Meditationes : University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 684: Meditationes : 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/. Metadata is © and 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/. 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. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 684 9924874713503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122318292 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487471 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. Latin Meditationes : Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468

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 27 leaves : 273 x 202 (205 x 146) mm. bound to 281 x 205 mm Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in 31 long lines; ruled in ink and drypoint. Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand. Marginal notes indicating topics of meditations in a second hand. 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). Illuminated border, f. 1r Illuminated border, f. 2r Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 2r Decorated border (unfinished), f. 4v Decorated initial (unfinished), Initial O, f. 5r Decorated border, f. 6r

Modern half-vellum.

Written in 1469 (f. 27r).

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