Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Carta pisana; Sententiae (Sentences)

Authors

• Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636 (http://viaf.org/viaf/803890/)

Other related names

• Voynich, Arno M., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 136
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 125

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Pisa, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is known for containing the fragmentary "Carta Pisana" (c. 1090-1110), the earliest example of an Italian document written entirely in the vernacular and the earliest written example of the Tuscan dialect (fol. 87r). It lists costs associated with building or repairing a ship, and was trimmed for use as a flyleaf in the present codex. On the verso are two biblical commentaries (fol. 87v). The main text of this manuscript is an abbreviation of Isidore of Seville's Sententiae (fols. 1r-86v) written in the north of Italy in the twelfth century. The script, in Caroline miniscule, is decorated with one large and two small decorated initials at the beginning of the three books of the Sententiae. The scribe made a number of mistakes in the numbering of the books and chapters, and the original text has been annotated, corrected, and glossed by both contemporary and later hands.

Notes

• Parts of the text not originally included (Bk. I, Ch. 5; Bk. II, Ch. 28) added by a later scribe after the explicit on fol. 86v
   
• Six lines erased on fol. 87r
   
• Glosses, corrections, and annotations throughout
   
• Damage (red ink?) to fols. 17v-18r
   
• Capitula given for the three books of Isidore's "Sententiae"
   

Extent

87+i; 281 x 192 mm bound to 292 x 200 mm

Foliation

Foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2-10 (8), 11 (9, +9)

Signatures

Early quire signatures in Roman numerals at fols. 6v, 14v, 22v, 30v, 38v, 46v, 54v, 62v, 70v, 78v

Support

Parchment

Binding

White, eighteenth-century (?) parchment over pasteboards

Layout

Part I (fols. 1r-86v): one column of thirty-one lines, frame-ruled in dry point, pricking visible throughout, written area 215 x 145 mm; Part II (fol. 87r): nineteen lines visible, dry point ruling, written area: 273 x 195 mm; Part III (fol. 87v): two columns of forty-three lines, written area: 220 x 160 mm; evidence of trimming throughout

Decoration

One large decorated initial, two small decorated initials, and numerous colored initials throughout

Script

Caroline Minuscule

Provenance

• Arno M. Voynich, London (1915); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; inscribed on inside of front cover: "10-11th Cent," "₤250", and "Spanish Ms 10-11th century (?) 'Isidorus' Bought from Arno M. Voynich of London 1915"
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2047, no. 125.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 150, no. 136.
• Tito Antoni, I costi industriali di una azienda conciaria della fine Trecento (1384-1388) (Pisa: Pacini, 1973), p. 8.
• Ignazio Baldelli, La carta pisana di Filadelphia: conto navale in volgare pisano dei primi decenni del sec. XII (Florence: G.C. Sansoni, 1973).
• Tito Antoni, "The Pisan Document of Philadelphia", Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 4, no. 1 (1977), pp. 17-24.
• Antonio Mastruzzo, "Il conto navale nel panorama grafico della Pisa altomedievale," in Pisa e il Mediterraneo: Uomini merci, idee dagli Etruschi ai Medici, Marco Tangheroni, ed. (Milan: Skira, 2003), pp. 190-195 and 444.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 11th century
• 12th century
• Italian
• Caroline minuscule
• Gloss
• Romanesque
• Italy
• Church Fathers
• Theology

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum, Book I; incipit: Summum bonum deus est. quia incommutabilis est et corrumpi omnino non potest. Creatura uero bonum. sed non summum est. quia mutabilis est. Et dum sit quidem bonum non tamen potest esse summum. [fol. 1r]; explicit: Et si pietas pro defunctis fidelibus flere iubeat. fides tamen pro eis lugere uetat. Illi enim deplorandi sunt in morte. quos miseros infernus ex hac uita recipit. non quos celestis aula letificandos includit [fol. 86v]
• fol. 23v — Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum, Book II
• fol. 50v — Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum, Book III
• fol. 87r — The "Carta Pisana"
• fol. 87v — Commentary on Jerome's prologue to the book of Job; incipit: Si aut fiscella iunco texerem [fol. 87v]; explicit: … magis u tile quid ex odio meo ecclesiis Christi euenturum ratus quam ex aliorum negotio [fol. 87v]
• fol. 87v — Commentary on the Book of Hosea; incipit: Tempori ozie et ioathan et achaz et ezechie regum iuda et ieroboam filii ioe regis Israel [fol. 87v]; explicit: … templum dei purgasse ac purifi caffe monstrat [fol. 87v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations in pencil
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 23v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial D