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Title

La vita e ... la conversione del nostro segniore jhesu christo

Call number

Ms. Codex 260
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904416
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580875

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

Manuscript containing an account of the life of Jesus. Also contains what appear to be short sayings of Jesus or prayers in a different hand (f. 60r). This text ends abruptly, possibly in mid-sentence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading (f. 1r): Questo libro tracta de la vita e de la conversione del nostro segnioro yhu xpo.
   
• Modern note in orange pencil (inside upper cover): Vita e conversione del nostro Signore.
   
• Incipit: Intra le altre grande vertude che se lezeno de sancta Cecilia vergene sie questa che ella portava sempre lo euangelio de [Christo] abscoso i[n] del suo pecto.... (f. 1r).
   
• Back cover board split, with evidence of a repair attempt; a couple of the nails are loose. Front board securely attached but back board somewhat loose. The leather that covered the spine has almost completely worn away. Parchment stained in places, sometimes badly. Some smudges. Ink mostly clear, but faded on some folios. A few wormholes. Some doodling on f. 60r-v.
   

Extent

60 leaves : 244 x 170 (181 x 123) mm. bound to 247 x 174 mm

Collation

Parchment, 60; 1-7⁸, 8⁴; [1-60]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary half leather over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 37 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

6-line initial with penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); rubricated headings and initials.

Script

Written in a miniscule bookhand by a single hand, except for occasional corrections and additions. The text on f. 60r appears to be in a different hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Spirituality--Catholic Church

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Christian

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Table of contents

• fol. 60r — Sayings of Jesus or prayers[?], f. 60r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 24v — Manicule, f. 24v