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Title

Italian religious miscellany

Authors

• Enselmino, da Montebelluna, 13th/14th cent
• Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Other related names

• Monastero di Santo Spirito (Verona, Italy), former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 255
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122470310
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580863

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1464- ca. 1473

Place

Italy

Summary

Miscellany containing works on the Virgin Mary and her parents, Joachim and Anna; the Passion; the Resurrection; and Saint Thedosina. Also a poem in terze rima on the lamentation of the Virgin Mary and selections from Thomas Aquinas.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

94 leaves : 283 x 201 (207 x 150 ) mm. bound to 292 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Traces of a near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards; five brass bosses on each cover (one missing, upper cover, lower left corner); two clasps and catches, engraved and stamped IHS. Spine splitting. A few wormholes. Various stains and smudges.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead and ink.

Decoration

5-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 2r, 65r), 2-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 84), rubrics in red, with alternating red and blue initials, and capitals and Gothic incipits touched with yellow; manicule (f. 63r).

Script

Written in a formal book script (f. 1r-1v) by one hand that breaks off abruptly, with the text beginning again in a later semi-cursive humanistic script by a second hand. Works 2-6 begin with a few words in a larger, Gothic script. The sixth work has many corrections in another hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Monastero di Santo Spirito of Verona (inscription, f. 94v).
   
• Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 542 (1930), no. 180a, and catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 239.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints in literature
• Devotional literature
• Italian literature--15th century
• Italian poetry--15th century
• Religious poetry, Italian--To 1500

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Saint's Life
• Devotion
• Literature -- Poetry
• Christian
• Italy
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — La vita de Joachim del tribu di Juda, f. 1r
• fol. 24r — La passion del nostro Signor Giesu Christo, f. 24r
• fol. 44r — Lo libro dela resurrectione del nostro Signor, f. 44r
• fol. 54v — Li Miracoli de la vergene Maria, f. 54v
• fol. 65r — Frater Anselmo, f. 65r
• fol. 76r — A laude e gloria sia de lo omnipotente dio e de la glorioxa vergine Maria..., f. 76r
• fol. 84r — Sancto Tomaxo daquino..., f. 84r

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 2r
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 24r
• fol. 44r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 44r
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 54v
• fol. 63r — Manicule, f. 63r
• fol. 65r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 65r
• fol. 84r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 84r
• fol. 94v — Owner note, f. 94v