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Title

De miseria conditionis humanae

Authors

• Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216 (http://viaf.org/viaf/16017787)

Other related names

• Motion, Laura Hurd, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 35
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms35.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript of the late twelfth-century text De miseria conditionis humanae was produced in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. The author of the work was the cardinal Lotario dei Segni, who later became Pope Innocent III. This copy is written on paper in a Gothic cursive script, with red and blue initials.

Notes

• Water damage throughout; first leaf nearly detached; paper repairs to fols. 1r-2v
   

Watermark

Watermarks similar to Briquet Monts 11726

Extent

39+i; 215 x 160 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (10), 4 (9, +3)

Signatures

Leaf signatures in lower right corner of final gathering (fols. 31-35)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords centered in lower margin verso

Binding

Parchment

Layout

Single column written in thirty-four lines; single vertical bounding lines full length; first quire bounded in lead, remaining three in ink with occasional horizontal bounding lines at upper margin; written area: 138 x 91 mm

Decoration

Seven-line and nine-line initials in red or blue at the beginning of each part; four-line red and blue initials alternate throughout at the beginning of each chapter; faded remnants of red penwork grounds behind initials; majuscules touched with red; rubricated in red; marginalia throughout

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Produced in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century given the style of script and decoration; unidentified "GHo52" in ink and "H 1191" in pencil on front pastedown; unidentified "46" in ink on fol. 1r together with remnant of a round library stamp (43 mm) in lower margin with the word "Bibliotheca" recognizable below a flower; other words missing because paper substratum has been destroyed; on fol. 38v unidentified "Cart. 37" in ink; manuscript belonged to Laura Hurd Motion who gave it to Bryn Mawr College in 1980
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Theology
• Italy
• Paper

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De miseria conditionis humanae
• fol. 1r — Prima pars; incipit: Quare de vulva matris egressus sum . . . [fol. 1r]; explicit: Lampas contepta [sic] apud cogitationes divitum. [fol. 13v]
• fol. 14r — Secunda pars; incipit: Tria maxime solent homines affectare ... [fol. 14r]; explicit: ... non sumet omnia neque desendet [sic] cum eo gloria eius. [fol. 28v]
• fol. 28v — Tercia pars; incipit: Non est quidem corpus vel cordis munditia ... [fol. 28v]; explicit: Fulgur et ignis Ardens in secula seculorum. Amen. Deo gratias semper. Amen. [fol. 37v]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 28v — Decorated initial N