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Title

De descriptione terre sancte ... etc.

Authors

• Burchardus, de Monte Sion, d. 1285
• Brocardus, Teutonicus
• Sanudo, Marino, 1260-1343

Other related names

• Peregrinus, de Sancto Vito, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 60
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914739373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903431
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1473937

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1350 and 1450

Place

Bologna?

Summary

Contains the text of De descriptione terre sancte, of Burchardus of Monte Sion (f. 1r-42v). The author's name is given in the text as Brocardus Theotonicus [i.e. Teutonicus] (f. 42v, col. 1). Also contains 4 shorter texts: De modo recuperationis terre sancte, of Marino Sanudo (f. 42v-49v.), composed in 1307 (prologue, f. 42v); In libro monachorum de temporalibus contempnendis (f. 49v); Metra moralium philosophorum de virtutibus [consisting of eight short poems] (f. 50r); and Iystoria [i.e. Historia] Beati Albani (f. 51r-56v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r). Title on cover: De geographia. Title as given in Zacour-Hirsch: Viridica Terrae Sanctae ... descriptio. Titles of the other works are taken from caption titles at the beginning of each work.
   
• 1st work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Cum in veteribus ystoriis legimus sicut dicit ... (f. 42v) primo deus secundo parentes tertio filii diligendi sunt.
   
• 2nd work, incipit and explicit: (f. 42v) Ad perficiendum quod nullus sit ausus transferare in terris ... (f. 49v) Unde videtur quod Bibar Sinicher abstulerit dominium Soldanatici cheyri et Babilonis cuius rei causa divisio est inter Amiralios. Deo gracias.
   
• 2nd work, colophon: (f. 49v) Explicit conscilium domini Marini Sanudi de terra sancta. et cetera. Ego Peregrinus de sancto vito praedictum librum exemplavi a libro domini Archiepiscopi Ravennae.
   
• 3rd work, incipit and explicit: (f. 49v) Mens tua terrenis non inhereat ... Quicquid dies hominis sumus et umbra sumus.
   
• 4th work, incipit and explicit: (f. 50r) Quicquid agas ratio consulta preambulet actum ... nona tegit solem prima neccat ultima prolem.
   
• 5th work, incipit and explicit: (f. 51r) Erat olim in partibus aquilonis homo ... (f. 56v) ut per exemplum Albani tui servi tui mereamur et nos cum eo a nostris facinoribus ablui et super nivem de albari. Amen.
   
• The ink is flaking and wearing away throughout the manuscript, but especially in the first work.
   

Extent

58 leaves : 252 x 186 (168 x 124) mm. bound to 259 x 194 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (17th-century paper) + 58 + i (17th-century paper); 1-5¹⁰, 6⁸; [1-58]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. There are also traces of a previous foliation, partially erased, in 16th-century arabic numerals, upper right recto, 47-104.

Support

Parchment

Binding

17th-century Italian paper over pasteboards.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

2-line initials in red with purple filigree and blue with red filigree; rubricated headings; 5-line decorated initial in red, blue, yellow, green, pink and white (f. 1r); 4-line decorated initial in red, blue, pink and white (f. 51r).

Script

Written in an Italian Gothic script; second work (f. 42v-49v) in the hand of Peregrinus de Sancto Vito (f. 49v).

Provenance

• Stamp with initials "P.F." (front flyleaf recto and f. 58v); traces of earlier ownership notation, "L.S.M."? (f. 58v).
   
• Sold by Hoepli, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Crusades--Early works to 1800
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Christian

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 51r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 51r