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

Title

Classical and Catholic miscellany.

Authors

• Zyll, Otto van, 1588-1656
• Beke, Willem van der, 1608-1683
• Cater, Jacques de, 1593-1657
• Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1650
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963263243503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898746505
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p36m33483 https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000267

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some words and phrases in Dutch in the phrase lists at the end of the volume (f. 81r-90v)

Origin

Date

after 1650

Place

Netherlands?

Summary

Collection of scholarly and devotional materials, some copied from 17th-century publications. The Latin works in the front of the volume include indexes of Virgilian topoi and letters of Cicero; a devotional poem on the suffering of Christ and other unidentified poems; and selections from Jesuit-authored works published in Antwerp, such as a verse account of the lifting of a siege of Cambrai (Cameracum), a work on the cardinal virtues heavily based on classical authors, and part of an elegy by Guilielmus Becanus (Willem van der Beke). Starting from the back is a list in two columns of phrases in Latin and Dutch, in some entries pairing Latin synonyms and in others giving Dutch equivalents for Latin (f. 90v-81r).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 1. f.1r-2v: Loci communes affectuum ex Virgilio -- 2. f.7r: [Latin notes] -- 3. f.10r-14r: Index epistolarum M.T. Ciceronis ad certum ordinem redactarum -- 4. f.15r-16v: De Christo patiente -- 5. f.18r-25v: Cameracum obsidione liberatum a serenissimo Archiduce Leopoldo Guilermo / Othonis Zylii e Societate Jesu -- 6. f.26r-30r: [Selections from Virtutes cardinales ethico emblemate expressae / Jacobus Caterus, S.J.] -- 7. f.30r-32v: Ad testam cineribus plenam in rerum humanarum vanitatem expendit -- 8. f.32v: Mortale est quodcumque vides ... [Selection from Elegia VII / Guilielmi Becani] -- 9. f.33r-35r: Quam iuvat arcanas rerum cognoscere causas verbaque ... -- 10. f.81r-90v: [Latin and Dutch equivalents and associated phrases]
   

Extent

92 leaves : 154 x 100 mm bound to 159 x 104 mm

Foliation

Paper, 92; [i, 1-91 (36-80 blank)], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (17th-century?) parchment over cardboard; remnants of two pairs of leather ties.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon).
   
• Ownership inscription: Franciscus [?] convictor (second half 17th century, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Latin poetry--Early works to 1800
• Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800
• Latin literature--Early works to 1800
• Latin literature
• Cardinal virtues
• Latin poetry
• Cambrai (France)--History

Genres

• Indexes (reference sources)
• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Latin

Keywords

• 17th century
• Portuguese
• Portugal
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry
• History
• Astrology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Loci communes affectuum ex Virgilio, f. 1r
• fol. 7r — [Latin notes], f. 7r
• fol. 10r — Index epistolarum M.T. Ciceronis ad certum ordinem redactarum, f. 10r
• fol. 15r — De Christo patiente, f. 15r
• fol. 18r — Cameracum obsidione liberatum a serenissimo Archiduce Leopoldo Guilermo, f. 18r
• fol. 26r — [Selections from Virtutes cardinales ethico emblemate expressae], f. 26r
• fol. 30r — Ad testam cineribus plenam in rerum humanarum vanitatem expendit, f. 30r
• fol. 32v — Mortale est quodcumque vides, f. 32v
• fol. 33r — Quam iuvat arcanas rerum cognoscere causas verbaque, f. 33r
• fol. 81r — [Latin and Dutch equivalents and associated phrases], f. 81r