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Title

Leggendario delle Sante Virgini

Other related names

• Cavalca, Domenico, d. 1342, translator
• Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 242
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122614640
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580849

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1350 and 1499

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of hagiographic and devotional works concerning various female saints. These might come from the Vitae Patrum, a 14th-century collection of saints' lives and legends by unknown authors, translated into Italian by Domenico Cavalca (d. 1342). Contains the following works: Life of St. Domitilla (f. 1r-6v); Laude di Santa Domitilla (f. 6v-10v); Di Sancta Eufrasina, della sua nativita et come essendo maritata fuggi ad uno monasterio di monaci (f. 10v-21v); Di Santa Maria Vergine (f. 10v-24v); La vita e legenda della Beata Eugenia (f. 24v-30v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from modern dealer's note (front flyleaf 1 verso).
   
• The suggestion that these works might come from the Vitae Patrum is taken from a modern dealer's note (front flyleaf recto) and the notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library.
   
• Fragmentary; the beginning of the first item and the end of the last are missing.
   
• First work lacks title or incipit.
   
• Second work. Heading: Laude di Santa Domitilla (f. 6v); incipit: Una stella ea parita Vergine di grande honore (f. 6v). This section consists of a collection of prayers and antiphons in honor of St. Domitilla.
   
• Third work. Heading: Di Sancta Eufrasina della sua nativita et come essendo maritata fuggi ad uno monasterio di monaci (f. 10v); incipit: Fue nella cipta [sic] dalexandria uno ge[n]tile huomo & honorevole che temeva idio il quale avea nome panuntio (f. 10v-11r).
   
• Fourth work. Heading: Di Santa Maria Vergine (f. 21v); incipit: Uno huomo secolare & imanendo morta lamoglie ... (f. 21v).
   
• Fifth work. Heading: Comincia la vita e legenda della Beata Eugenia (f. 24v); incipit: Quomodo imperadore nel septimo anno del suo imperio mando filippo Illustrissimo huomo in Egipto ... (f. 24v).
   
• Various smudges and stains. Most leaves show some evidence of mildew damage. There is later arithmetic doodling in the bottom margin of f. 12r.
   

Extent

32 leaves : 223 x 175 (145 x 120) mm. bound to 227 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 30 + i (modern paper); [1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper boards. Slightly loose in places; spine of cover split at front hinge.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 23 lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

Red and blue used to highlight initials and section headings.

Script

Written in a single minuscule hand of the late 14th or 15th century (Notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library).

Provenance

• Francis Campbell Macauley (bookplate, inside upper cover; Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Purchased, 1900 (Notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library).
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints in literature--Early works to 1800
• Saints--Legends--Early works to 1800
• Spirituality--Catholic Church

Genres

• Hagiographies
• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--14th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Saint's Life
• Paper
• Christian
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 6v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 6v
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 8v
• fol. 12r — Marginal note, f. 12r
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 24v
• fol. 27r — Marginal note, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Marginal note, f. 27v