Satirical poems on simony
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Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686
Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago, 2025 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Satirical poems on simony
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Western Europe
Date of Origin First half of 13th century
Script, Hands
Praegothica with c-t ligature, uncial D, lack of ae diphthong, and mixture of S types.
General Remarks
Text in rhymed couplets.
Original Condition
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 53 mm
Ruling Ruled and lined in brown ink, text written above line.
Current Condition
Extent 1 partial parchment leaf (top margin visible, no bottom margin).
Dimensions 138 x 102 mm
More about the Current Condition
Marginal notations in non-scribal hand contemporary to or not much later than rest of the manuscript.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Red marginal headers, red markings on couplets in some poems, decorative darker black initials in margin begin individual poems.
History
Provenance
Owned by Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel. Their collection of 68 manuscript fragments was acquired by the University of Chicago in 1926.