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Title

Italian religious miscellany

Call number

Ms. Codex 271
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543444
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580885

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1457

Place

Italy

Summary

Miscellany containing five religious and devotional works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Inscription on inside front cover: Questo libro e de Santa Eucharistia de la gla gloria[?].
   
• First work, heading: Qui comenza lo prolago de le [sic] meditatione de la vita de Christo composto per frate Iacomo de lo ordine di frati minuri traslatato de gramatica in latino. Incipit: Chiasche una persona de questo mondo ... (f. 1r). Parts of the heading are missing due to a loss of the upper outer corner of f. 1. In the heading [Christo] is written Xpo.
   
• Second work, incipit: Splendore superdo [sic] diu summo fatore ... (f. 87r).
   
• Third work is missing an unknown amount from the beginning.
   
• Fourth work, heading: El prolago della meditatione della vita de sanctu Iovanny Baptista (f. 100r). Incipit of prologue (after heading): Ad laude de dio & della vloriosa vergene Maria ... (f. 100r). Incipit of text: Or incomenzamo la prima parte. dicono li sancti de luy che fo el piu singulare homo ... (f. 102r).
   
• Fifth work, heading: Questa siene la vita de sancto Honofrio confessore (f. 164r). Incipit: Panuntiu humile servo della vostra santita a tucti li servi de dio ... (f. 164r).
   
• First work copied by Johannes Benedicti Pauli de Nursia, who finished on 4 March 1457 (colophon, f. 85v: Expletus fuit liber iste per me Iohannem Benedicti Pauli de Nursia die quarta mensis martii 1457).
   
• No indication of copyist or date for the other works, but they appear roughly contemporary.
   
• The third, fragmentary work is written on a different sort of paper from the other portions of the manuscript.
   
• Binding loose; cover badly deteriorated and torn. Cover pulling away from book block. Possibly some slight mildew damage in the binding. Various stains and smudges on the leaves. Back endleaf loose.
   
• Descriptive notes from bookseller Jacques Rosenthal on file in the Library.
   

Extent

180 leaves : 218 x 145 (177 x 108) mm. bound to 221 x 142 mm

Foliation

Paper, 180; 1-10, 12-91, [93-180]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum with ties.

Decoration

Red used in some portions for headings and initials.

Script

Written in various humanistic scripts by different hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints in literature
• Devotional literature
• Italian literature--15th century
• Spirituality--Catholic Church

Genres

• Codices
• Hagiographies
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

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Decorations

• fol. 105r — Manicule, f. 105r