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Title

Theological miscellany

Authors

• Ales, Alexander de

Call number

Ms. Codex 689
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615152
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487478

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with first item in Italian (f. 2r-68r)

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1450

Place

Italy

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit for first work: Candor lucis eterne et speculum sine macula. Sapientia, secundo capitulo. Cosi como la luce corporale...(f. 2r); title from heading.
   
• Incipit for second work: Videns Yesus civitatem flevit super illam dicens...(f. 72r); title from heading.
   
• Incipit for third work: Quero de quo panno debet esse corruptible. Respondit Alexander de Ales in tractatu de missa (f. 163r); title from Zacour-Hirsch.
   
• Incipit for fourth work: Voca operationes et redde illud mercedem suam (f. 164r); title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue (Lenten sermons for Sundays from Septuagesima through Holy Week).
   
• Incipit for fifth work: In omnibus qua confessionem pertinent...(f. 244r); title from heading.
   

Extent

354 leaves : 96 x 71 (64 x 50) mm. bound to 100 x 72 mm

Foliation

Paper, 356; [1-356]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern red morocco, splitting at top hinges.

Layout

Written in 16-20 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script.

Provenance

• Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 1 (1954), no. 61.
   
• Sold by Rosenthal, 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800
• Confession
• Devotional literature, Italian
• Jerusalem in Christianity--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Sermons
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Devotional
• Collection of Sermons
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Legende della gloriosa Vergine Maria, f. 2r
• fol. 72r — Tractatus de civitate sancta Jerusalem, f. 72r
• fol. 163r — Quaestiones duo, f. 163r
• fol. 164r — Dominica septuagesima, f. 164r
• fol. 244r — De confessione, f. 244r