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

Title

Stella di salute

Authors

• Frater Santi de Bon Cor de Sutele

Other related names

• Cora, Luigi, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 205
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Florence?, Italy

Summary

This book consists of an unpublished Italian devotional treatise, composed in question-and-answer form, entitled the Stella di Salute (Star of Salvation). The text's author, as stated in the introductory rubric (fol. 1r), is a Franciscan friar by the name of Santi de Bon Cor de Sutele. The text was completed, according to the rubric, on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1450. It is unclear whether the present copy is contemporary or slightly later in date. The colophon on fol. 205v states that the scribe's name is Faustino. The text begins with an illuminated first page containing a historiated initial S depicting a haloed bishop.

Notes

• A manuscript with the same text is listed in Folnesics, Hans, Die illuminierten Handschriften in Dalmatien (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1917), p. 50, as being in the library of the State Italian College of Zadar, in modern-day Croatia (observation by Nicholas Herman, 02/2017)
   

Extent

I+205+ii; 163 x 114 mm bound to 174 x 123 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

i-xxv(8), xxvi(8-2) [third to last and second to last folios of quire 26 cancelled; otherwise regular]

Signatures

Signatures, mostly cropped, visible in lower-right-hand corners on versos

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular catchwords, decorated with pen flourishes, bottom center verso at: 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v, 144v, 152v, 160v, 168v, 176v, 184v, 192v, 200v

Binding

Sixteenth-century brown morocco with stamped motifs

Layout

One column of eighteen lines; written area: 100 x 85 mm

Decoration

One historiated initial with decorated border (fol. 1r); rubrication in red; pen flourishes throughout

Script

Gothic--rotunda; Scribe: Frater Faustino

Colophon

"DEO GRATIAS AMEN. Solum amore dei. Scriptorique peccatis Faustino fratri." (fol. 205v)

Provenance

• Bookplate of Luigi Cora, twentieth century; acquired in 1926 by the Free Library of Philadelphia (Pepper fund)
   

Related resources

• Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 450, no. 16.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Italian
• Christian
• Colophon
• Gothic
• Historiated initial
• Italy
• Devotion
• Manicules

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Colophon
• fol. 1r — Stella di Salute
• fol. 205v — Prayer to Saint Francis; incipit: O alto e glorioso dio...; explicit: ...che io obersvi i tuoi sancti comandamenti. Amen.
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Six line historiated initial S, Haloed Bishop with Crozier
• fol. 64v — Text under the passage
• fol. 128v — Text under the passage
• fol. 136v — Text under the passage
• fol. 137v — Manicule
• fol. 144v — Text under the passage
• fol. 152v — Text under the passage
• fol. 168v — Text under the passage
• fol. 176v — Text under the passage
• fol. 192v — Text under the passage
• fol. 200v — Text under the passage