Liber ruralium commodorum (DS137) (Q592)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9947675343503681, LJS 265, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9947675343503681)
- Ruralia commoda
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Liber ruralium commodorum (DS137) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9947675343503681, LJS 265, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9947675343503681) |
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23 December 2022
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Ruralia commoda
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Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233-approximately 1320
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Firenze, Andrea de, 15th century
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Traiecto, Petrus de
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Caffarelli, Prospero, -1500
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Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
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Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
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Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968
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Schoenberg, Lawrence J
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before 1464
15. century
1464Gregorian
1464Gregorian
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Extent: 1 online resource (172 leaves) : illustrations
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illustrations
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Title from rubric (f. 7r, viewed on April 28, 2010).
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Collation: Parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 172 + i (18th-century paper); 1-1610 1712; 1-172, foliation in ink in a later hand, lower right recto. Catchwords, most vertical, on last verso of each gathering. Remnants of signatures a-c visible on leaves in first 3 gatherings; most trimmed away.
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 41 lines; ruled in faint ink.
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Script: Written in semi-humanistic script, possibly in the hand of Petrus de Traiecto; opening words of each book following illuminated initial written in display capitals.
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Decoration: 3-line and 5-line initial in gold interlaced with a white vine pattern on a background of blue, green, and red extending almost the full height of both columns and filling most of the upper margin, ending in a winged insect (f. 1r); 9-line inhabited initial in gold with a similar interlaced white vine pattern and background forming a three-quarters border with winged insects and...
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Binding: 18th-century Italian red morocco; gilt, with broad ornamental borders, cornerpieces, and the arms of Pope Pius VI on covers; spine gilt in compartments.
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Origin: Written in Italy, probably Rome, in the 1460s (based on analysis of illumination by Albinia de la Mare), probably before 1464 (based on arms of Prospero Caffarelli).
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Dimensions of original manuscript: 331 x 227 (210 x 150) mm. bound to 342 x 242 mm.
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Formerly owned by Prospero Caffarelli (arms, f. 7r, before he became bishop of Ascoli in Dec. 1463, at which time the bishop's mitre was added to his arms).
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Formerly owned by Pope Pius VI (papal arms on covers).
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Formerly owned by Robert Hoe (bookplate inside upper cover); sold in his collection at auction at Anderson Auction Company (New York), 19 Nov. 1912, Part IV, lot 2333.
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Formerly owned by Alfred Chester Beatty (Beatty label, #44, on front flyleaf, but not listed in Eric George Millar's Library of A. Chester Beatty, 1927-1930).
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Formerly owned by Hermann Marx (bookplate inside upper cover); sold with other items from his collection at auction at Sotheby's, 19 Apr. 1948, lot 32.
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Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 Dec. 1968, lot 26.
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Sold by Librairie J.-M. LeFell (Paris) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1998.
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Sold by Lawrence J. Schoenberg at auction at Sotheby's to an unknown purchaser, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 34.
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28 April 2025
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