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Title

Libro di Santo Justo Paladino.

Call number

Ms. Codex 270
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122592071
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s17st0d

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

Poem in eight-line stanzas about Saint Justo, a knight who after accusing Fortuna of causing great misfortune but learning about the transience of worldly goods, devotes himself to spiritual virtues and becomes a saint.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Signori e done azoche per fortune / Nisuno de nui se meta a desperare / ... (f. 1r).
   
• Explicit: Ad amar la pouerta a seruir a Dio / Al uostro onor chonpito el chantar mio / Finis amen laus Deo (f. 56v).
   
• The printed edition of this work, produced from the Venice, 1490 edition, differs considerably from this manuscript. The printed edition can be found in Lommatzsch, Erhard. Beiträge zur älteren italienischen Volksdichtung (Berlin, 1950-1951).
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Balance, 2501 (Udine, 1450; Treviso, 1464-1465).

Extent

60 leaves : 191 x 144 (127 x 90) mm bound to 197 x 147 mm

Foliation

Paper, 60 + i (modern paper); [1-60]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards.

Layout

Written in 16 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a humanistic book script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by La Medicea (cat. 51, no. 167), 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian legends
• Christian legends
• Christian saints in literature--Early works to 1800
• Fortuna--(Roman deity)
• Fortuna--(Roman deity)
• Fortune
• Fortune
• Italian literature--15th century
• Italian literature
• Italian poetry--15th century
• Italian poetry
• Christian saints in literature

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Hagiographies
• Poetry
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Legends
• Legends

Keywords

• 15th century
• Saint's Life
• Christian
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Literature
• Poetry

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 1v