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

Title

Miscellany of religious works

Authors

• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274
• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274
• Catherine, of Bologna, Saint, 1413-1463
• Isaac, of Syria, 7th cent

Other related names

• Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 241
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383182
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580841

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with occasional phrases in Latin

Origin

Place

Italy, 1502-ca. 1599

Summary

Collection of 7 religious, predominantly Franciscan, works. 3 are by Saint Bonaventure and one is a story about Saint Bonaventure teaching about the holy life. Other contents include works attributed to Catherine of Bologna and Isaac the Syrian, a 6th-century abbot of Spoleto, along with a group of sermons. The first two items are printed, and were published together by Albertino da Lisona Vercelese in Venice in 1502.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger. Spine title: S. Bonaven. Dial. Itin.
   
• Some of the leaves are becoming brittle. On a number of leaves, oxidation of the ink has damaged the paper and rendered the text very difficult to read. On some leaves this deterioration has eaten through the paper. Some leaves show evidence of attempts to repair the damage.
   

Extent

208 leaves : 215 x 152 mm. bound to 225 x 156 mm

Foliation

Parchment and paper, i (17th-century[?] paper) + 208 + i (17th-century[?] paper); [1-208]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 157-167 are parchment; the rest are paper.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

17th-century pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch). Spine stamped, with some gilding. Cover flaking around edges and spine. Cracking on spine and at hinges.

Script

Written in a humanistic script, mostly by one hand (except the section of the sermons on parchment, f. 157-167, and the story about the precepts of Saint Bonaventure, f. 200v-201v).

Provenance

• Gift of Francis Campbell Macauley (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Franciscans--Theology
• Catholic Church--Sermons
• Mysticism--Catholic Church
• Sermons, Italian
• Spirituality--Catholic Church
• Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800
• Angels--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Sermons
• Anthologies
• Treatises
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• Paper
• Italian
• Italy
• Christian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — El prologo nel libro chiamato Dialogo, f. 1r
• fol. 30r — Itinerario in Semedemo, f. 30r
• fol. 42r — Opera, f. 42r
• fol. 99r — Come si deposare in dio et del contempto del mundo, f. 99r
• fol. 136v — Sermons, f. 136v
• fol. 200v — Leggenda di S. Bonaventura, f. 200v
• fol. 202r — Tractatus ... de sex alis seraphin, f. 202r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 30r — Inhabited initial, Initial E, Lion, f. 30r