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Rule Ms. Codex 687
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

Augustinian rule, in six chapters, including a translation of each rule into French.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 28 leaves : 162 x 118 (125 x 80) mm. bound to 167 x 121 mm; Foliation: Parchment, iii (18th-century paper) + 28 + vii (18th-century paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.

Decoration

Illuminated initial A in gold, green, and pink (f. 1r); 2-line initials colored in green, blue, and pink throughout; red ink used for translations.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Incipit regula Sancti Augustini (f. 1r).

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
French
Illumination
Theology
Devotion
France
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in northeast France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Binding

18th-century calf. Spine is cracked along front cover, which is nearly detached.

Language

Latin, with French translation

Provenance

Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh (flyleaf, iii recto).

Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.

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Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in northeast France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Language

Latin, with French translation

Provenance

Formerly owned by M. Swartzwelder, January 1, 1859, Pittsburgh

Sold by William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1950.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Augustinian rule, in six chapters, including a translation of each rule into French.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Incipit regula Sancti Augustini (f. 1r).

Script note

Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand. Marginal notes and corrections in other, later hands, some notations have been trimmed.

Decoration Note

Illuminated initial A in gold, green, and pink (f. 1r); 2-line initials colored in green, blue, and pink throughout; red ink used for translations.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
French
Theology
Devotion
France
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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