Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Faucher, Denis, 1487-1562
• Herp, Hendrik, ca. 1400-1477

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954234603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775118874
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5423460

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

after 1524

Place

Italy

Summary

Preface on holiness in nuns and poems attributed to Denis (Dionysus) Faucher on religious life precede a printed edition of Hendrik Herp's Speculum perfectionis (Venice: Sabio, 1524). The printed material ends with a woodcut of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and the following manuscript material begins with a hymn to Saint Catherine (f. 9r-10r), followed by additional poems on religious life. Most of the poems by Faucher are a addressed to a nun in the scholasticate (period following novitiate), except for one addressed to Antonius Rorincus (f. 8v).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Speculum perfectionis vene[rabilis] Fr[ater] Henrici Hierp ...
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Full-page illumination of a nun on the cross above a 4-line verse titled Ad scholasticam (f. 1r) and an illumination of a skull surrounded by bones and flowers (f. 3r), both surrounded by text passages on scrolls; rubrication in red; paragraph marks in red or blue and 1- or 2-line initials in red or blue.

Script

Provenance

• Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
   
• Possible ownership inscriptions on first printed leaf: F. Franciscus pradice [?]; Ballesdens.
   
• Sold by Lathrop C. Harper (New York), 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Catherine,--of Alexandria, Saint--Prayers and devotions
• Monasticism and religious orders for women--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• illuminations (paintings)
• Poetry
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Keywords

• 16th century
• Illumination
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• Literature -- Poetry
• Christian

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Miniature, Nun on the cross, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Miniature, Skull with border of bones and flowers, f. 3r