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Title

Ascetic miscellany

Authors

• Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216
• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
• Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Call number

Ms. Codex 717
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875283503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615202
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487528 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32n4zh6w

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1470 and 1499

Place

Italy

Notes

• Full codicological description (typescript) and transcription of 4th work (f. 42-43) by S. Clark, n.d., is shelved with the manuscript.
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• 1st work (f. 1r): Incipit prohemium de arte bene moriendi...Cum de presentis exilii miseria mortis transitus propter moriendi... Attributed to Matthew of Cracow by Zacour-Hirsch (note, p. 19), but this attribution is questioned by S. Clark.
   
• 3rd work (f. 14r): Incipit liber de miseria humane conditionis editus a Lothario dyacono Cardinali tituli sanctorum Sergii et Bachi. Qui postea Innocentius papa in appellatus est. Titulum autem opusculi portuensis episcopi est nomini dedicavit. Incipiunt capta euisdem libri. De miseria hominis...
   
• 4th work incipit (f. 42v): XV signa ante seculi consumationem fienda. Verse, derived from the version found in Voragine, Legenda aurea (according to S. Clark).
   
• 5th work incipit: Altercatio animae et corporis revelata ciudam devoto compilata per beatum Bernardum. Incipit vir quidam dum steterat velud heremita [variant of Walther 20421], f. 44r.
   
• 2nd work (f. 14r): Ex legenda sancti Bernardi. Infirmatus aliquando vir dei Bernardus cum... From Jacobus de Voragine, according to S. Clark.
   
• 1. f.1r-13v: De arte bene moriendi. -- 2. f.14r: Ex legenda sancti Bernardi. -- 3. f.14r-42r: De miseria humane conditionis / Pope Innocent III. -- 4. f.42v-43v: XV signa ante saeculi consumationem fienda [in verse]. -- 5. f.44r-50v: Altercatio animae et corporis / compilata per beatum Bernardum [in verse].
   

Watermark

Briquet no. 7833 (Venice 1460) and no. 7834 (Rome 1470).

Extent

56 leaves : 227 x 166 (154 x 109) mm bound to 236 x 166 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern parchment) + 56+ i (modern parchment); [1-56]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern gilt leather.

Layout

Written in 31 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Illuminated interlaced full border, with coat of arms which has been defaced, in rose, green, blue, and gold (f. 1r); illuminated initials (f. 14v, 24v, 36r); rubricated; alternating red and blue initials throughout.

Script

Written in a Gothic liturgical script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ernesto Pagnoni, Milan (gilt stamped bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Le Medicea (Florence), 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
• Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
• Asceticism--Early works to 1800
• Judgment Day--Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Hagiography--Early works to 1800
• Soul--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts
• illuminations (paintings)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Illumination
• Theology
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De arte bene moriendi, f. 1r
• fol. 14r — Ex legenda sancti Bernardi, f. 14r
• fol. 14r — De miseria humane conditionis, f. 14r
• fol. 42v — XV signa ante saeculi consumationem fienda, f. 42v
• fol. 44r — Altercatio animae et corporis, f. 44r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 14v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 14v
• fol. 24v — Illuminated initial, Initial T, f. 24v
• fol. 36r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 36r