[Dubia]

Creator
Pergola, Paolo della, -1455
Chiriacus, de Fulgineo (scribe)
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
illuminations (paintings)
Manuscripts, Latin
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Date
1454
Language
Latin
Subject
Logic -- Early works to 1800
Logic
Extent
80 leaves : parchment and paper, color illustrations; 213 x 144 (141 x 92) mm bound to 226 x 150 mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Table of contents: 1. f.6r-57v: Dubia [lacking beginning] / Paolo della Pergola. -- 2. f.58r-71v: Consequentiae / Ralph Strode. -- 3. f.72r-74v: De sensu diviso et composito / Paolo della Pergola.
Title, attribution and scribe from f. 57v and f. 74v: Hoc opusculum editum est per magistrum Paulum Pergulensem dubiorum compositorem scriptum a me fratre Chiriacu Defulgineo ordinis servorum sanctae Dei genetricis Mariae fulginei die quinto decimo kalendas decembris inventa eiusdem ordinis.
Date, place, and scribe from f. 71r: Hic liber est fratris Quiriaci defulginio ordinis servorum Sanctae Mariae Virginis Dei genetricis quem sexto kalendas decembris luna tertiadema millesimo quatragesimo quinquagesimo quarto a nativitate Domini Nostri salvatoris propria mea manu Bononie transcripsi.
Colophon for second work (f. 71r): Et sic est finis consequentiae ab eximo doctore magistro Strodo compilatatae.
Foliation: Paper and parchment, iv (modern paper) + 80 + iv (modern paper); [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right tecto. Every 5th-6th bifolium is parchment.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 38 lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Illuminated initials with botanical border decoration in gold, blue, green, and pink (f. 41r, 57r); 3-line red initials with pink penwork ornamentation and 3-line blue initials with red penwork ornamentation throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph marks throughout.
Binding: Contemporary [or 16th-century?] blind-stamped calf over wooden boards.
Origin: Written in Bologna in 1454 (f. 71r).
Some previous staining and damage due to mold.
Latin.
Related Work: Strode, Ralph, active 1350-1400. Consequentiae.
Related Work: Pergola, Paolo della, -1455. De sensu composito et diviso.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g44hq58
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 683
Provenance
Formerly owned by John Edgar Ker (signature, f. 1v).
Sold by Guglielmo Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 771.
Offered by William H. Robinson, Ltd., in catalog 78 (1949), no. 459, as a manuscript from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Sold by William H. Robinson, Ltd., 1949.
Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Ker, John Edgar, former owner.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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