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Title

Libro della divina potentia

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 97
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804403503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122410688
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580440

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1425 and 1450?

Place

Italy

Summary

The text is on f. 2r-49v. Folios 50r-52r contain a chapter list, a slightly later addition in a different hand. Folio 52r also contains a 14-line poem, titled : Nella sala de priore e scritto questo sonetto. Two charts for linking dates with days of the week and a lunar table appear at the end of the volume (f. 52v-53v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from later penciled notation (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit of text heading (rubric): (f. 2r) Quessto libro tratta della divina potentia.
   
• Incipit and explicit of text: (f. 2r) Come idio omnipotente creo tutte le cose e come ferie gli angioli el mondo e l'umana generatione e come adamo pecco e di sciendenti suoi ancora ne sentono. Nostro Singniore idio padre di charitade e governatore ... (f. 49v) uno ciento di noi e persone e avere e peto noi vivorremo gia essere eno. Deo Gratias Amen.
   
• Incipit and explicit of poem: (f. 52r) Sella fortunata fatto Singnore ... quantella nala sciati nella mota.
   
• Collation (current): [i], 1⁵, 2³, 3⁷(-1), 4², 5⁴(+1), 6⁸(-3). Original collation, based on catchwords: 1³, 2⁶(-1), 3⁷, 4⁷(-1), 5⁴[+2]. Catchwords in decorative frame, on what were originally the last versos of each quire. Some on recto, with first words of verso (e.g., f. 12).
   
• Older foliation: 17th-century arabic numerals in ink, upper right of some rectos. Folio 2 is numbered as 1, f. 6-9 as 5-8, f. 14 as 4, f. 15 as 3, f. 16 as 2, f. 18-24 as 9-15, f. 37-38 as 26-27, f. 39 as 24, f. 41 as 25, f. 42-43 as 21-22, f. 44-49 as 28-33.
   
• Most folios were remargined at an early date. The current collation bears little relationship to the original, since all bifolia were made single leaves, then resewn, possibly out of order (catchwords on f. 6v do not match the text on f. 7r, and the 17th-century numbering is out of order). However, the current order agrees with the 15th-16th-century table of contents (f. 50r-52r), so the manuscript may have been taken apart, misbound, foliated and then rebound in the correct order. Folio 39 is bound backwards.
   
• Three calendrical tables with explanatory text (f. 52v-53v). This is a later addition written in the same hand as the chapter list on ff. 50-52.
   
• Paper contains several different types of watermarks not in Piccard.
   
• First couple of quires are slightly loose.
   
• Many of the folios have been repaired at the edges. There are many stains.
   

Extent

56 leaves : 297 x 221 (238 x 182) mm. bound to 316 x 240 mm

Foliation

Paper, 56; [1-56]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half-vellum/brown marble paper over cardboard.

Decoration

7-line blue initial with red filigree (f. 1r). Similar initials (3-line blue with red filigree and red with blue filigree) at the beginning of each chapter. Red is used throughout for headings; chapter list (f. 50r-52r) is entirely in red.

Script

Written in an Italian Gothic cursive, except for f. 50-52, which is written in an Italian Gothic rotunda.

Provenance

• Ownership marks on f. 2 and 52v, now illegible; Giuseppe Martini Collection (information from dealer).
   
• Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 182.
   
• Purchased on the Lessing and Edith Rosenwald fund, 1973.
   

Subjects topical

• God--Omnipotence--Early works to 1800
• Creation--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Tables (documents)
• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Christian
• Italy
• Tables
• Document
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 51r — Chapter list, f. 51r
• fol. 52r — Poem, f. 52r

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 2r
• fol. 6v — Decorated catchword, f. 6v
• fol. 9r — Decorated catchword, f. 9r
• fol. 12r — Decorated catchword, f. 12r
• fol. 17v — Decorated catchword, f. 17v
• fol. 21r — Decorated catchword, f. 21r
• fol. 26r — Decorated catchword, f. 26r
• fol. 31v — Decorated catchword, f. 31v
• fol. 36r — Decorated catchword, f. 36r
• fol. 39v — Decorated catchword, f. 39v
• fol. 44v — Decorated catchword, f. 44v
• fol. 47r — Drawing, Face, f. 47r
• fol. 49v — Drawing, f. 49v
• fol. 52v — Chart, f. 52v
• fol. 53r — Chart, f. 53r
• fol. 53v — Table, f. 53v