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Title

Jesuit miscellany

Authors

• Jesuits
• Maldonado, Juan de, 1534-1583
• Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572
• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153

Call number

Ms. Codex 1254
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943844223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244574866
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4384422

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin (f. 1r-56v), with some Spanish (f. 78r-169v) and sections of German

Origin

Date

1567-1584

Place

Benelux countries?

Summary

A collection of various printed and handwritten works on Jesuit rules and prayers. The opening manuscript sections contain summaries of the constitutions, rules, meditations, excerpts from Saint Bernard, exhortations, and an index of bulls and ordinances relating to the order. The summary of the constitutions contains sections on poverty, obedience, and other aspects of the Jesuit rules. The rules are addressed to priests, counselors, and attendants. The third work contains some sermons by Saint Bernard. The sixth deals mostly with penitents and confession. Section 8 contains various printed works, all on one side of the leaf only, with handwritten works on confession and mass, along with excerpts from Saint Bernard and the beatitudes, on the other sides. The Seys tratados muy devotos is printed, and consists of a sermon and 5 treatises, and a letter by Saint Bernard. Some catchwords are present on the lower right rectos throughout. Many of the pages bear either a cross on top or the Jesuit IHS topped with a cross.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

171 leaves : 140 x 85 mm. bound to 147 x 95 mm

Foliation

Paper, 171 leaves: [1-171]. Multiple contemporary foliation schemes present in ink, upper right recto. Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Some frame-ruling present.

Decoration

Manicule (f. 37v); woodcut with chart of days of the week and seated figure (f. 59r); small floral design (f. 62v); various printed initials with floral and animal motifs throughout Seys tratados muy devotos (f. 78r-171v).

Script

Written in two very small cursive hands.

Subjects topical

• Jesuits--Rules--Early works to 1800
• Monasticism and religious orders--Rules--Early works to 1800
• Meditations--Early works to 1800
• Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
• Sermons, Spanish--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Excerpts
• Sermons
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• Paper
• Collection of Sermons
• Christian

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Summarium earum constitutionum..., f. 1r
• fol. 13r — Meditationes in singulus oties admonitus, f. 13r
• fol. 16v — Meditationes in singulus dies quadragesimae ex sacro evangelio desumptae, f. 16v
• fol. 27r — Exhortationes aliquot, f. 27r
• fol. 40v — Regulae sacerdotum societatis, f. 40v
• fol. 46r — Modus iuvandi proximus, f. 46r
• fol. 50r — Documenta quaedem a confessariis domesticorum observanda, f. 50r
• fol. 54r — Regulae and other miscellaneous liturgical documents, f. 54r
• fol. 71r — Regulae prefecti ecclesiae, f. 71r

Decorations

• fol. 37v — Manicule, f. 37v
• fol. 54v — Chart, f. 54v
• fol. 59r — Chart, f. 59r
• fol. 62v — Foliate design, f. 62v