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Title

Epithoma :

Authors

• Heinrich, von Friemar, approximately 1245-1340
• Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
• Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435

Call number

Ms. Codex 1061
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9941479363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155866658
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4147936

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of excerpts from the De institutis coenobiorum and Collationes patrum XXIV of John Cassian, 5th-century works on monastic life. Followed by a collection of Hebrew Scripture references grouped by their application to the life of Christ and a treatise attributed to Bartholomaeus Carthusiensus addressed to a novice wishing to leave the monastery.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title for predominant work in 15th-century note on flyleaf; Zacour-Hirsch supplies the title Flores ex collatione patrum, sive ex collationum Joannis Cassiani libris XXIV.
   

Extent

172 leaves : 158 x 104 mm. bound to 166 x 114 mm

Collation

Paper, i (contemporary flyleaf) + 172; 1¹⁰ 2-4¹² 5-6¹⁴ 7¹² 8¹⁰ 9¹² 10-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13-14¹⁰ 15¹²; [1-172]; modern collation in pencil, upper or lower right recto. Last three gatherings are blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

Blind-stamped contemporary calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch); one metal hook and clasp and one metal clasp with hook now missing; paper label at top of spine has remnants of title, including "in collationes patrum ... Cassiani" and paper label at bottom of spine has shelf number 183, in two generations of numbering.

Layout

1st work written in 35-40 long lines, with marginal notes in red ink; 2nd work has marginal Biblical citations in red ink; 3rd work written in 34 long lines, with red letters in the main text corresponding to marginal Biblical citations.

Decoration

Titles, brackets, and marginal notes in red ink.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (Patrum Cartusianorum B.V. Mariae in Buxheim, f. 1r).
   
• Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 12 (1961), no. 23, and catalog 15 (1964), no. 17; sold by Rosenthal (New York), 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800
• Monastic and religious life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500

Genres

• Codices
• Excerpts
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• History
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 67r — Applicationes auctoritatum veteris testamenti ad novum, f. 67r
• fol. 87r — Tractatus ad quendam fratrem novicium ad seculum redire volentem, f. 87r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r