Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Moral and didactic writings

Authors

• Holkot, Robertus, -1349 (https://viaf.org/viaf/9841479/)
• Fulgentius, Saint, Bishop of Ruspa, 468-533 (https://viaf.org/viaf/102324857/)
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. (https://viaf.org/viaf/90637919/)
• Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 (https://viaf.org/viaf/88125532/)

Other related names

• Carthusians of Treviso, former owner (http://dati.san.beniculturali.it/SAN/produttore_SIAS_san.cat.sogP.26889)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 4
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsh: MS Hirsh 4
• Accession: 52213
• deRicci: 13

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern Italy?

Summary

This is a thirteenth-century compendium of moral and didactic writings, with a colophon dating the manuscript to 1268. The book contains a varied collection of texts, ranging from Roman Seneca in the 1st century, through the North African apologist Fulgentius in the sixth, to the near-contemporary sermons and the recent Moralitates of the learned Englishman Holcot. The manuscript is a good example of a late medieval compendium, and contains a variety of authors known all across Europe.

Notes

• First leaf (penciled foliation [2]) has small illegible name in upper left, potential previous owner; "August 1818"
   
• Multiple misnumbered/out of order foliation numbers; in the 90s, foliation is sometimes partially cut off the top of the page
   

Extent

Vi + 119; 180 x 130 bound to 184 x 131

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, very lightly drawn, upper center recto

Collation

1 (6, +1 +3), 2-11 (12)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords visible throughout: 12v, 36v, 48v, 60v, 72v, 84v, 96v, 108v

Binding

Original wooden boards and pigskin; lined with a parchment leaf of a 13th century theological text

Layout

One column, 29 lines, occasional leaves are frame ruled but most are not ruled; first quire is entirely frame ruled and prickings are made along the ruling lines; prickings visible on the edges of pages throughout the rest of the quires

Decoration

Three diagrams, with explanation, of the Arbor virtutum, the first having the Sacramentum corporis Domini nostri Jesu Christi as its trunk (ff. 56r-58v)

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Colophon

Est scriptum. Et sermones isti facti sunt apud fratres predicatores in Colonia, anno Domini MCCLXVIII.

Provenance

• Owned by the Carthusians of Treviso, f. 44 signed "per manum Walteri fratris Carth(usiani)"; in Paris, 1818; n. 10 in a French 14th century collection; Dr. David King collection at Newport; his sale (New York, 12 May 1884, II, n. 2344); acquired by Lehigh in 1887
   

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Collection of Sermons
• Philosophy
• Drawing
• Illustration
• Miscellany

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Robertus Holcot, Moralitates
• fol. 25r — Fulgentius, De imaginibus virtutum; incipit: Apollo dicitur principalis proles Jovis...
• fol. 44r — Seneca, Declamationes XXV moralisatae; incipit: Antiquitus in civitate Atheniensi fuit constituta talis lex...
• fol. 57v — Albertus Magnus (?), Serones XXXII de sacramento corporis Domini; incipit: Venite, comedite panem meum...

Decorations

• Stub recto — Four-line red initial T
• Stub verso — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 1r — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 2r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 2v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 3r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 4r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 5r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 5v — Two-line red initial V
• fol. 6r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 6v — Three-line red initial P
• fol. 7r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 7v — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 8r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 8v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 9v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 10v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 11r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 11v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 12r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 12r — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 12v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 13r — Two-line red initial N
• misnumbered recto — Two-line red initial F
• misnumbered verso — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 14r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 14v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 16r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 16r — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 16v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 16v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 17r — Two-line red initial B
• fol. 17v — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 17v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 18v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 18v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 19r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 19v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 20r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 20v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 20v — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 20v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 21r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 21r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 21v — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 21v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 22r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 22v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 24r — Four-line red initial A
• fol. 25r — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 26r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 27r — Two-line red initial V
• fol. 27v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 28v — Two-line red initial S
• fol. 28v — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 29v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 30r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 30r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 31r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 31v — Two-line red initial V
• fol. 32r — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 32v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 33r — Four-line red initial F
• fol. 34r — Four-line red initial F
• fol. 35r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 36r — Two-line red initial T
• fol. 36v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 36v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 37r — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 37r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 37v — Two-line red initial C
• fol. 37v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 38r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 38r — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 38v — Two-line red initial N
• fol. 38v — Two-line red initial R
• fol. 38v — Two-line red initial F
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• fol. 40r — Two-line red initial D
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• fol. 41r — Two-line red initial M
• fol. 41v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 42r — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 42v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 43r — Three-line red initial A
• fol. 44r — Four-line red initial T
• fol. 44v — Two-line red initial Q
• fol. 45r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 45r — Four-line red initial T
• fol. 45v — Two-line red initial P
• fol. 46r — Three-line red initial T
• fol. 46v — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 47r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 47r — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 47v — Three-line red initial T
• fol. 48r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 48v — Two-line red initial A
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• fol. 49r — Three-line red initial T
• fol. 49v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 50r — Two-line red initial F
• fol. 50r — Four-line red initial T
• fol. 50v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 51r — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 51v — Three-line red initial T
• fol. 52r — Two-line red initial A
• fol. 52v — Two-line red initial E
• fol. 53r — Three-line red initial T
• fol. 53v — Two-line red initial L
• fol. 55r — Tree diagram
• fol. 55v — Tree diagram
• fol. 56r — Tree diagram
• fol. 56v — Five-line decorated initial D
• fol. 57r — Two-line red initial D
• fol. 57v — Three-line red initial U
• fol. 60v — Two-line red initial U
• fol. 62r — Three-line red initial U
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