Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 744: Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... etc. University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 744: Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... etc. 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 from title of predominant work; titles for individual works taken from 15th-century index (f. 1), which also includes a list of headings for the first three works of Albertano. Sermons begin on f. 58r, 60v, 63r, 65v, and 68v. Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r). Attribution to Peter Damian from Zacour-Hirsch, taken from bookseller's description, with the title Rhythmos ad diversos mundi status; this work often appears in collections of Albertano da Brescia and is sometimes attributed to him as well. Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 744 9924875603503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79958745 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487560 Collection of works by Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis with dates of their composition in the explicit or incipit of each, plus a poem by Petrus Damianus on the final folio. Latin Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... etc. Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072 1r Index (15th century), f. 1r 2r Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi [1255], f. 2r

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 70 leaves : 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm. bound to 270 x 204 mm Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 70 + ii (modern paper); [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1. Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Historiated initial depicting a knight with shield, in green, pink, purple, red, yellow and gold, with a botanical border, probably 15th-century and German, painted over earlier illumination (f. 2r). Rubricated, with capitals in red and blue, decorated 2-line and 4-line initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork ornamentation and decorated borders at the left edge of most columns throughout the text. Historiated initial, Initial I, Knight with shield, f. 2r Illuminated border, f. 2r Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 25r Penwork initial, Initial H, f. 29v Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 52r Penwork initial, Initial C, f. 58v Penwork initial, Initial R, f. 68v

19th-century stamped calf, front hinge split.

Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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