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Title

Epistulae; De Clementia; Sermo de corpore Christi; Meditationes; Epistula de morte S. Hireronymi; De quatuor virtutibus; Epistula ad Cyrillum; Epistula ad Augustinum, etc.

Authors

• Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79124709)
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79004229)
• Pseudo-Eusebius, Cremonensis (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2003010856)
• Pseudo-Augustinus
• Pseudo-Cyrillus (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2003010870)
• Pseudo-Jerome (https://lccn.loc.gov/n81089861)
• Pseudo-Seneca (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99011706)
• Franciscus, de Mayronis, approximately 1285-approximately 1328 (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2002048120)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 49
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms49.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Tuscany?, Italy

Summary

This is an Italian manuscript from the first half of the fifteenth century, which contains many texts that can be divided into five sections: an opening fragment from Giovanni da Calvoli's Meditations on the Life of Christ; a small group of texts by early Christian writers on the hagiography of Saint Jerome; a large group of letters by Saint Jerome, some spurious; a small group of works attributed to Seneca or Pseudo-Seneca; sermons of Franciscus de Mayronis. These are followed by a short group of precepts for all Christians. It is supposed that the manuscript was probably copied in a Franciscan environment and, although none of the texts is rare, the compilation is unusual and rarely brought together in this fashion.

Notes

• The third text, Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona: Epistola de morte Sancti Hieronimi, lacking first folio for proper incipit
   

Extent

I+[6]+190 (fol. 1 lacking)+i; 207 x 138 mm bound to 215 x 145 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil upper right recto for table contents, as [1-6], and fols. 2-16 before giving way to contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2 (10, -1), 3-20 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords in lower right margin verso, some disappearing

Binding

Modern calf half-binding sewn on four thongs, parchment-like paper over cardboard boards

Layout

Single column of thirty-one lines ruled in hard point; written area: 155 x 85 mm

Decoration

Blue or red three- to seven-line initials marking the beginning of various texts, some with red and blue penwork extending into the margin; alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; numerous marginal annotations or corrections, tiemarks in the margins, maniculae pointing to specific passages in text

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Probably copied in a Franciscan environment (because of the particular combination of texts), and most likely in central Italy (on the basis of the script and the delicate penwork decoration); unidentified erased stamp on first folio of first quire containing table of contents; Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund
   

Related resources

• Migne, Jacques Paul. Patrologia Latina. Paris.
• Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. 1866. Vindobonae: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky.
• Fohlen, Jeannine. "Un apocryphe de Sénèque mal connu: le De uerborum copia". Mediaeval Studies. 42 (1980).
• Sénèque. De la clémence, texte établi et traduit par F. Préhac, Paris, 1967.
• Palmer, Ralph Graham, and Sénèque. Seneca's De remediis fortuitorum and the Elizabethans. Chicago: Institute of Elizabethan Studies. 1953.
• Mohan, G. E., "Initia Operum Franciscalium (XIII-XV c.)," Franciscan Studies, 37 (1977): p. 236.
• Schneyer, J. B. Repertorium der lateinischen sermones des Mittelalters, III, Munster, 1971.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Miscellany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Front matter 1 verso — Giovanni da Calvoli, Meditationes vitae Christi; incipit: Hic potest interponi meditatio valde pulcra; explicit: et ipse in dicta domo facerent Pascha.
• Front matter 4 recto — Table of contents
• fol. 2r — Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona, Epistula de morte Sancti Hieronimi; incipit: Disperderet et dissiparet et sapientiam veram edificaret seminaret atque plantaret; explicit: et in futuro gaudia que tam tu possides adipisci
• fol. 32v — Pseudo-Augustinus, Epistula ad Cyrillum de laudibus beati Hieronymi; incipit: Gloriosissimi christiane fidei athlete sancte matris et desie lapidis; explicit: aliqualiter defraudatur desiderio
• fol. 38v — Pseudo-Cyrillus, Epistula ad Augustinum de miraculis beati Hieronymi; incipit: Uenerabili viro episcoporum eximio Augustino Yponensi presuli; explicit: carissime in tuis orationibus memor esto
• fol. 66v — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Nepotianum; incipit: Petis a me Nepotiane carissime litteris transmarinis; explicit: quod talis est confitebitur
• fol. 73v — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Eustochium; incipit: Audi filia et vide et inclina aurem tuam; explicit: non cooperient eam.
• fol. 91r — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Heliodorum monachum; incipit: Quanto amore et studio contenderim ut pariter; explicit: tunc labor durus est.
• fol. 95r — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Paulinum presbyterum; incipit: Bonus homo de bono thesauro cordis; explicit: militantem per te salutari volo.
• fol. 99r — Pseudo-Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Occeanum; incipit: Estoronius Eusebius Jeronimus Occeano; explicit: nec latro violentus eripere.
• fol. 102v — Excerpts from Saint.Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum Admonitio; incipit: Recurram breviter grecas et latinas; explicit: exemplis quod de servi.
• fol. 108v — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Furiam de viduitate servanda; incipit: Obsecras litteris et suppliciter deprecans; explicit: oculi cordis fatentur archana
• fol. 112r — Saint Jerome, Epistula consolatoria ad Paulam de morte Blesillae; incipit: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam; explicit: semper loquentem sorore cum matre amen.
• fol. 116v — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Demetriadem virginem; incipit: Inter omnes materias quas ab adolescentia usque ad hanc etatem; explicit: quarum imitatio forma virtutis est
• fol. 126r — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Laetam de institutione filiam; incipit: Apostolus Paulus scribens ad corintheos; explicit: regnis celestibus offerendam
• fol. 131r — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Sabinianum diaconum cohortatoria de paenitentia; incipit: Parce queso anime tue; explicit: istius illecebris fugiendis.
• fol. 134r — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Rusticum monachum; incipit: Nichil est christiano felicius; explicit: sed magna sunt premia
• fol. 141r — Saint Jerome, Epistula ad Antonium monachum Haemonae; incipit: Dominus noster humilitatis magister; explicit: valde in Domino.
• fol. 141v — Saint Jerome, Alexandri Regis Magni Macedonum et Dindimi Bragmanorum Regis per litteras collatio; incipit: Sepius ad aures nostras fando; explicit: aut invidie quia meliore prestantur
• fol. 148r — Pseudo-Seneca, De copia verborum; incipit: Quisquis prudentiam sequi desideras tunc per rationem recte vives si omnia; explicit: turpissima iactura est que per neglientiam fit.
• fol. 156v — Seneca, De clementia, Proemium, III 1-III 24; incipit: Scribere de clementia nero cesar; explicit: incendii ac ruine potentie est
• fol. 167v — Seneca, De clementia, I 1-II 5; incipit: Ut de clementia scriberem; explicit: quomodo in rectum praua flectantur.
• fol. 170r — Pseudo-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum; incipit: licet cunctorum poetarum gremium vestrum semper illustrent; explicit: in domo sit ista felicitas. Amen.
• fol. 173v — Franciscus de Mayronis, Sermo de corpore Christi; incipit: Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum . . .; explicit: ...regnat in sempiterna. amen. finis.
• fol. 188r — Notabilia bona et utilia; incipit: Nota quod in quatuor casibus redemit dimissa; explicit: in celestibus deberet desiderare.

Decorations

• Front matter 1 recto — Unidentified effaced stamp
• Front matter 1 verso — Three-line red initial h
• fol. 32v — Three line blue initial G with red and blue penwork
• fol. 38v — Four-line blue initial U with red and blue penwork
• fol. 66v — Six-line red initial P with red and blue penwork
• fol. 73v — Four-line blue initial A with red and blue penwork
• fol. 91r — Four-line red initial Q with red and blue penwork
• fol. 95r — Four-line blue initial B with red and blue penwork
• fol. 99r — Three-line red initial E with red and blue penwork
• fol. 102v — Three-line red initial R
• fol. 108v — Three-line red initial O with red and blue penwork
• fol. 112r — Four-line red initial Q with red and blue penwork
• fol. 116v — Three-line blue initial I with red penwork
• fol. 126r — Three-line red initial A with red penwork
• fol. 131r — Three-line blue initial P with red penwork
• fol. 134r — Three-line red initial N with red and blue penwork
• fol. 141r — Three-line blue initial D with red and blue penwork
• fol. 141v — Four-line blue initial S with red and blue penwork
• fol. 148r — Six-line blue initial Q with red penwork
• fol. 156v — Four-line blue initial S
• fol. 167v — Three-line blue initial U with red penwork
• fol. 170r — Seven-line red initial L with red and blue penwork
• fol. 173v — Three-line blue initial M with red penwork
• fol. 188r — Two-line blue initial N with red penwork