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Title

Carmen paschale

Authors

• Sedulius, 5th cent
• Matthew, of Vendôme, b. ca. 1130
• Prudentius, b. 348
• Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, ca. 390-ca. 463
• Boethius, d. 524

Call number

Ms. Codex 743
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212163919
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487559

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

Germany

Summary

Carmen paschale in four books, with a number of other poems, notes on the liturgy and verses in praise of monastic life.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Item 6, on Socrates, is unidentified, incipit: Socrates sanctum ac venerabile consilium nobis (f. 50r).
   
• Item 10 incipit: In summis missis festorum Nativitate Christi, Pasche, & Penthecostes, una sola oratio solemniter...
   
• Item 13 incipit: Monachus ditur quasi solus et plangens seu dolens... (f. 64r).
   

Extent

66 leaves : 141 x 104 (103 x 73) mm. bound to 146 x 105 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + i (near contemporary paper) + 66 + i (modern paper); [1-66]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards, back cover detached.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a German gothic script (f. 1-47), with additional texts in 5 other hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church--Liturgy
• Carthusians
• Acrostics--Early works to 1800
• Devotional literature
• Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Devotion
• Paper
• Christian
• Germany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Carmen paschale, f. 1r
• fol. 47r — Contra superbos, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Contra avaros, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Oratio quam dicitur edidisse Prudentius poeta, f. 48r
• fol. 49r — Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini, excerpt on the nature of sin, f. 49r
• fol. 50r — On Socrates, f. 50r
• fol. 50v — Stelliferi conditor orbis, f. 50v
• fol. 51r — Se totum invenit perfusum etiam pro verberibus quae, f. 51r
• fol. 51v — Summa quies nil velle supia qui postulat usus, f. 51v
• fol. 59r — Notes on the order of the liturgy, f. 59r
• fol. 62r — Prayer to Jesus Christ and Pro peccatis, f. 62r
• fol. 62v — De sanctis specialiter privilegiatis, f. 62v
• fol. 64r — Acrostic poem about monastic life, Carthusian, f. 64r
• fol. 64v — Poem/prayer, f. 64v
• fol. 65r — [Versus?] beati Thomae de Aquino de laude cellae, f. 65r
• fol. 66r — Historia de Transfiguratione domini salvatoris, f. 66r