Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

[Classical and Catholic miscellany] [manuscript].

[Netherlands?], [after 1650]

92 leaves : paper ; 154 x 100 mm bound to 159 x 104 mm.

Collection of scholarly and devotional materials, some copied from 17th-century publications. The Latin works in the front of the volume include indexes of Virgilian topoi and letters of Cicero; a devotional poem on the suffering of Christ and other unidentified poems; and selections from Jesuit-authored works published in Antwerp, such as a verse account of the lifting of a siege of Cambrai (Cameracum), a work on the cardinal virtues heavily based on classical authors, and part of an elegy by Guilielmus Becanus (Willem van der Beke). Starting from the back is a list in two columns of phrases in Latin and Dutch, in some entries pairing Latin synonyms and in others giving Dutch equivalents for Latin (f. 90v-81r).

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 92; [i, 1-91 (36-80 blank)], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script.

Binding: Contemporary (17th-century?) parchment over cardboard; remnants of two pairs of leather ties.

Origin: Written, possibly in the Netherlands, after 1650 (first edition of Cameracum obsidione liberatum).

UPenn Ms. Codex 1650

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1650