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Title

Miscellany of religious verse and prose

Authors

• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Call number

Ms. Codex 315
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122418432
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580937

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with one prayer in Latin

Origin

Date

1400-1599

Place

Siena?

Summary

Collection of religious verse and some prose.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Various stains and smudges.
   

Extent

54 leaves : 212 x 143 mm. bound to 219 x 143 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 54 + i (modern paper); [1-54]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards.

Decoration

Red or blue initials, some with ornamentation (f. 12r, 37r); rubricated headings.

Script

Written in cursive script by different hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Devotional literature, Italian
• Italian literature--Early works to 1800
• Italian poetry--Early works to 1800
• Spirituality--Catholic Church

Genres

• Anthologies
• Codices
• Poems
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Anthology
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Christian
• Devotion
• Italy
• Paper
• Italian

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Visione contemplativa, f. 2r
• fol. 6v — Untitled poem, f. 6v
• fol. 8r — Oratione, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Oratione della Vergine Maria, f. 8v
• fol. 12r — La laude del corpo di Christo, f. 12r
• fol. 12r — La laude del corpo di Christo, f. 12r
• fol. 13v — La laude di Santa Caterina da Siena, f. 13v
• fol. 14v — La laude del venardi santo, f. 14 v
• fol. 17r — Laude del vano parlare, f. 17r
• fol. 18v — Laude di Santo Ansano martire, f. 18v
• fol. 19v — Laude [pestilence in Siena], f. 19v
• fol. 32r — Prayers, f. 32r
• fol. 34r — Thirty three-line poems, f. 34r
• fol. 37r — Oratione optima a nostra dona di misere, f. 37r
• fol. 41r — Prayer in Latin, f. 41r
• fol. 43r — Historical data regarding Florence, 1186-1327, f. 43r

Decorations

• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 12r
• fol. 37r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 37r