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Title

Historiae adversus paganos

Authors

• Orosius, Paulus (http://viaf.org/viaf/2479624/#Orosius,_Paulus)

Other related names

• Riccio, Camillo, 1838-1899, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/40444742/#Riccio,_Camillo,_1838-1899)
• Laurus, Antonius, former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777/#Goodhart,_Howard_Lehman,_1884?-1951)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 15
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms15.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This is an Italian manuscript from the third quarter of the fifteenth century, which contains Paulus Orosius' Historiae adversus paganos.

Notes

• Water-stained throughout
   
• Final folio detached
   
• Fol. 1 missing; text begins incompletely
   

Watermark

Watermarks similar to Briquet Huchet 7686

Extent

Ix+173+i; 290 x 212 mm bound to 306 x 220 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right, recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right, recto in front flyleaves and first two folios

Collation

1 (9, +9), 2-17 (10), 18 (4)

Signatures

Quire and leaf signatures (e. g., a1, a2, a3...) on first five leaves of each quire

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords in lower margin right of inner vertical bounding lines, some missing

Binding

Twentieth-century luan plywood boards with worn leather spine

Layout

Single column, written in thirty lines; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length, ruled in hard point; written area: 197 x 120 mm

Decoration

Alternating two- to three-line blue and red ink initials; text divisions and headings in red; marginalia in several contemporary hands and marginal notations throughout in a later hand

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Produced in Italy in the third quarter of the fifteenth century; ownership inscription: "[Clerico?] Camillo Riccio A. V. et S. V. et am. A. et s.s. et u. f. r. et hoc verum est. Hic olim fuit R. Presbiteris V. H. Marcelli Ricci nunc vero mei Camilli Ricci sui nepotis et A. S."; on fol. 174v: "Camilli Ricci Bellicastrensis sum," and repeatedly in a variety of hands: "nec no suorum amicorum omnium" or "nec non suorum natos amicorumne."; below in another hand: "Non mancare con la prima commodita raguagliarlo di quanto occorre."; a draft of a letter found inside this book was written by the vicar of a parish church on behalf of Antonius Laurus, who was Bishop of Bellcastris from 1599-1609; no other provenance known; bought from H. P. Kraus (typed description taped to inside back cover) by Howard L. Goodhart in April 1949 (bookplate; his note on fol. 1 recto), and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College in March 1950
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 435, n. 15.
• Karl Zangemeister, ed., Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii (Leipzig, 1889)

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Humanistic
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Table of contents
• fol. 2r — Historiae adversus paganos; incipit: //seros, quanto longius a remedio ueteris religionis, alienos ut merito hac scritatione claruerit regnasse mortem...; explicit: De qualitate autem opusculorum tu uideris, qui praecepisti tibi adiudicanda si edas, prete iudicata si deleas. Finis Pauli Orosii.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "13 Manuscript no. 90"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil (number circled): "60"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil on De Ricci
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Note in pencil: "781"
• Flyleaf 9 recto — In ink: "[Clerico?] Camillo Riccio A. V. et S. V. et am. A. et s.s. et u. f. r. et hoc verum est. Hic olim fuit R. Presbiteris V. H. Marcelli Ricci nunc vero mei Camilli Ricci sui nepotis et A. S."
• fol. 11r — Marginal drawing
• fol. 136v — Manicule
• fol. 174v — In ink: "Camilli Ricci Bellicastrensis sum," and repeatedly in a variety of hands: "nec no suorum amicorum omnium" or "nec non suorum natos amicorumne"
• fol. 174v — In ink in another hand: "Non mancare con la prima commodita raguagliarlo di quanto occorre"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "13 Manuscript no. 90"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil (number circled): "60"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil on De Ricci
• Inside back cover — Typed description from H. P. Kraus taped in