Collection ID: 0037 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Confessiones and other works

Authors

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 (http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

OM 16
(Philadelphia, United States, Villanova University)

Publisher

Villanova University

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Florence, Italy

Notes

• Digital facsimile lacks folios 80-84
   

Extent

Ii+122+ii; 278 x 189 mm

Foliation

Foliation in modern pencil, in upper right recto on some leaves and lower left recto on other leaves

Collation

1-14 (8), 15 (10)

Catchwords

Catchwords at lower center of fols. 8v, i6v, 24V, 32V, 40V, 48V, 56V, 64V, 72V, 80V, 88v, 96V, 104V, 112V

Binding

Brown leather stamped in gold with two clasps

Layout

Ruled in brown ink (verticals); written in two columns of 36 -37 lines; written surface 172 x 130 mm.

Decoration

On fol. ir, a three-quarter-page miniature in two columns depicting two separate images: the conversion scene of Augustine in the garden at Milan and Augustine in the vestments of a bishop; below the miniature the text opens with a rubric and a 7-line miniature depicting a frontal, seated figure before a tree with head resting on right palm; on fol. 7r Book 2 opens with the half-figure of a bishop with crozier and miter, executed in brown ink and colored with lavender washes; titles and rubrics in red; at major text divisions, alternating red and blue 5-7-line penwork initials, elaborately infilled and flourished in the opposite color; 19 in all

Provenance

• Two bookplates on inside front cover: (1) Thomas Ewart Marston, (2) Brian Douglas Stilwell; verso of the first flyleaf contains several pencil notations indicating that the manuscript was "Bound by Douglas Cockerell 1900" and comes "From the library of Dr. Adrian Fortiscue (late Chief Librarian of the British Museum)"
   

Related resources

• Kenneth B. Steinhauser, "A Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Located at Villanova University," Manuscripta 57.2 (2013): 205-77 (DoI 10.1484/J.MSS.1.103704

Keywords

• 15th century
• Christian
• Italy
• Italian
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Augustine, Confessiones; incipit: Magnus es domine et laudabilis ualde ...; explicit: ... sic sic accipietur, sic inuenietur, sic aperietur. Deo gratias. Amen. Confessionum sancti Aurelii Augustini liber tertius decimus et ultimus. Explicit.
• fol. 88r — Leander of Seville, pseudo-Augustine, De institutione uirginum et contemptu mundi, preface; incipit: Feci mihi cantores et cantatrices et delitias filiorum hominum ciphos et urceos in ministerio ad uinam fundenda ...; explicit: ... Falax ymago et uana estpulcritudo, mulier timens deum ipsa laudabitur. Explicit praefatio exortationis sancti Augustini episcopi ad sororem suam. [fol. 91v]
• fol. 91v — Leander of Seville, pseudo-Augustine, De institutione uirginum et contemptu mundi; incipit: Precor te soror ut femine quae tecum non tenent unam professionem ad tuam non acedant societatem ...; explicit: Et siperseueraueris usque in finem salua eris. Explicit exortatio sancti Augustini ad sororem suam. [fol. 99r]
• fol. 99r — pseudo-Augustine, De vera et falsa poententia ad Christi devotam; incipit: Quam sit appetenda gratia penitentie omnis auctoritas clamat omnis beatorum vita conatur ostendere ...; explicit: Quam nobis det experimento cognoscere et eius usque ad finem dulcedinem sentire, qui tibi illustratione sui luminis praerogativam contulit bonitatis et in ipso stabilitatis in odorem suavitatis. Amen. [fol. 108v]
• fol. 109r — Augustine, Soliloquia; incipit: Uoluenti mihi diu multa ac va- 239 ria mecum ac per multos dies sedulo quaerenti memetipsum ac bonum meum ...; explicit: ... ex qua potius parte meruerit falsi nomen non ualeo discernere. Si ... [fol. 119v]
• fol. 120v — Antoninus Florentinus [Antonino Pierozzi, 1389-1459, Archbishop of Florence], Letter to the Prior of the Dominican Convent at Pistoia; incipit: In Christo sibi charissimis priori sonnentis que fratribus conventus pistonensis Ordinis Predicatorum frater Antonini eiusdem olim ordinis archiepiscopus florentinus licet...; explicit: ... non cesset manus nostra operari labor cum fine misericordes sine fine valete et primum dominum exorate ex florentia prima octubris.m.cccc.lvi. deo gratias. [fol. 121v]
• fol. 122r — Pseudo-Augustine, Oratio; incipit: Salva me rex eterne glorie qui potens es salvare ...; explicit: ... a futurisque largire digneris custodiam. Qui uiuit et regnat per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen. [fol. 122v]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Three-quarter-page miniature in two columns depicting two separate images: the conversion scene of Augustine in the garden at Milan and Augustine in the vestments of a bishop
• fol. 1r — 7-line miniature depicting a frontal, seated figure before a tree with head resting on right palm
• fol. 7r — Half-figure of a bishop with crozier and miter, executed in brown ink and colored with lavender washes