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Title

De spiritu et anima ... etc.

Authors

• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
• Alcherus, of Clairvaux, 12th century

Other related names

• Gaspar, scribe
• Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 17
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914707273503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122614486
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1470727

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1463

Place

Italy

Summary

Text of treatise De spiritu et anima (f. 1r-56v), erroneously attributed to St. Augustine. This appears to be identical to the treatise De anima et spiritu by an Alcherus of Clairvaux. Also includes an unidentified theological text, erroneously identified in the manuscript as St. Augustine's Soliloquia (f. 56v). There is a table of contents for this work on f. 56v-57v.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution to St. Augustine (Divus Augustus) taken from inside front flyleaf and from spine.
   
• Incipit (1st work): Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum ... (f. 1r).
   
• Explicit (1st work): ... aliud non sit quae ratio. (f. 56v). This explicit is characteristic of Norpoth's "Type I" of the text (Norpoth, p. 7). Contains chapters 1-33 only (out of 65).
   
• Incipit (2nd work): Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus ... (f. 58r).
   
• Explicit (2nd work): ... omnis beatitudo: omnis clementia sit deo patri et spiritui sancto. amen. (f. 143v).
   

Extent

146 leaves : 163 x 110 (107 x 61) mm. bound to 174 x 116 mm

Collation

i (contemporary parchment) + 144 + i (contemporary parchment); 1-6⁸, 7-9¹⁰, 10⁸, 11-16¹⁰; [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; rebacked in the 19th century; joints worn with red rot.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Illuminated initials in gold, blue, green, red and white (f. 1r, 58r); marginalia and section headings in red.

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand. Scribe identifies himself as Gaspar on f. 56v and 143v.

Provenance

• Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's to Henry Drury, 26 Feb. 1821, lot 37.
   
• Sold by Drury at auction at R. H. Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 270.
   
• Sold by William Allen, 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Doctrines--History
• Catholic Church--Doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Catholic Church--Theology--Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Soul--Early works to 1800
• Spirit--Early works to 1800
• Theology--Study and teaching--Catholic Church

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Italian
• Illumination
• Italy
• Theology
• History

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 1r
• fol. 59r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 59r