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Title

De reparatione lapsi hominis

Authors

• John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407

Other related names

• Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, ca. 350-428 or 9, recipient
• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 359
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122638247
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580998

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1456

Place

Vicenza

Summary

Treatise in the form of a letter written to Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, for the purpose of recalling him to his duty. He had wished to leave the church in order to marry a lady of Antioch. It is one of St. John Chrysostom's earliest works. From the wording of the long colophon (f. 68v-69r) it appears that this particular manuscript is the original written by or for the unnamed translator from the Latin. This translation appears to be otherwise unknown, as the only Italian translation known to Hoffmann (1523) seems to be different. In this manuscript the addressee is called "Demetrius". The name of the addressee varies in different versions; in the 1523 translation it is "Teofilo", in the Latin translation from the Greek published by Zell (ca. 1470) it is "Amanticus".

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch and notes of bookseller H. P. Kraus).
   
• Incipit of heading (f. 1r): Questo e el libro de san Zuanne vescovo de Constantinopoli scripto a Demetrio de la reparatione del anima lapsa ...
   
• Incipit of text (f. 1r): Chi dara laqua al mio chavo et la fontana de le lagrime ali mei ochi ...
   
• Cover badly worn at spine. Some evidence of worm damage to boards. Front pastedown pulling loose. Some leaves badly stained. Ink faded or worn on some pages.
   
• Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in the Library.
   

Extent

69 leaves : 159 x 112 (98 x 68) mm. bound to 162 x 110 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 69; [1-69]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards. Rebacked.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Title and colophon in red.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Donation plate from Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade (Archbishop of Ambrun and Bishop of Metz) to the Jesuit College of Metz, 1693 (inside front cover); ms. inscription of the same college (f. 1r); Giuseppe Martini collection.
   
• Sold from the Martini collection to H. P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
   
• Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 95.
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Orthodox Eastern Church--Doctrines
• Spirituality--Catholic Church
• Spirituality--Orthodox Eastern Church

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Christian
• Italy

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Donation plate, Inside front cover
• Inside back cover — Seller's description, Inside back cover