Descriptio seu declaratio terr[a]e s[anc]te [et] civitatum vicinaru[m] [et] regno[rum] q[ua]si totius orbis (DS16814) (Q70135)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (5156859, Codex Ms. 707, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5156859)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Descriptio seu declaratio terr[a]e s[anc]te [et] civitatum vicinaru[m] [et] regno[rum] q[ua]si totius orbis (DS16814) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (5156859, Codex Ms. 707, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5156859) |
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Descriptio seu declaratio terr[a]e s[anc]te [et] civitatum vicinaru[m] [et] regno[rum] q[ua]si totius orbis
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Burchard, of Mount Sion, -1285
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Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Francis Edwards (Firm)
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Israël--Descriptions et voyages--Ouvrages avant 1800
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Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes--Illinois--Chicago
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Illinois--Chicago
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Israel--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Palestine--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
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Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes
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between 1425 and 1475?
15. century
1425Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 11 leaves ; 493 x 383 (411 x 283) mm bound to 504 x 408 mm
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Manuscript fragment.
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Title from opening rubric.
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Collation: Parchment, iii (20th-century paper) + 11 (foliated 1-11 in 20th-century pencil) + ii (20th-century paper); mounted single leaves; fol. 4-7 signed b1-4; catchword on lower right margin on fol. 3v.
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 49 lines; lead ruled.
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Script: Main text written in textualis formata by a single scribe with headings in textualis libraria.
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Decoration: decorated lower border on fol. 1r of acanthus leaves in red, blue, and gold, flowers in red, green, and gold, and rinceaux in black and gold; 3- or 4-line initials in gold, blue, pink, white, and black; 2-line alternating red and blue penwork initials; red and blue line fillers; paragraph marks in alternating red and blue; yellow wash on first letter of each sentence.
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Binding: 20th-century half red morocco with marbled paper over boards; marbled endpapers.
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Origin: Decoration suggests a mid-15th century French origin. Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago suggests it was "written and illuminated in Paris...very likely for the Sorbonne." Derolez attributes its origin to a Low Country.
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Related shelfmark: Ghent, Belgium, Ghent University Library, HS.0013.
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Related shelfmark: Toledo, OH, Museum of Art, MS 15.
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Related shelfmark: Chicago, IL, Art Institute, 15334.
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Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms707.
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Marginal notes in a bâtarde hand. "Nota" signs throughout in at least 3 hands.
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From the library of Guglielmo Libri; his sale at Sotheby and Wilkinson, 30 March 1859, no. 407. The sale catalogue describes this as part of a larger manuscript codex that also includes: 1. Geographia sive Descriptio orbis tam tarrae quam Maris sumpta ex libro de proprietatibus rerum compilato a Fr. Batholomaeo and 2. Tractatus de tribus orbis partibus ac variis naturis hominum portentorum...
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From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps; his sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 26 April 1911, no. 457. The sale catalogue describes this as part of a larger manuscript codex that also includes: 1. Geographia sive Descriptio orbis tam tarrae quam Maris sumpta ex libro de proprietatibus rerum compilato a Fr. Batholomaeo and 2. Tractatus de tribus orbis partibus ac variis naturis hominum...
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Presentation leaf before fol. 1: "Brocardus. Descriptio seu declaratio terrae sanctae. Saec. XIV. Presented to the libraries of the University of Chicago by the Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D. 1915."
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Presentation leaf laid in: "Brocardus (d.1283): Descriptio...Terre Sancte. A manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century, written in Paris. This book on Palestine had great popularity. Gift of Dr. F.W. Gunsaulus."
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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