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

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Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904445
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580901

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

An Italian version of the extremely popular legend of the martyrdom of the Theban Legion, supposedly decimated in the reign of Diocletian and Maximian because so many of its officers and men adhered to the Christian faith. The massacre is supposed to have taken place at St. Maurice-en-Valais (now in Switzerland). The commander of the legion (which was composed entirely of men from the Thebaid in Egypt) was Maritius, later canonized.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading on f. 1r.
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Diocletiano essendo doppo Numeriano imperatore electo ...
   
• Zacour-Hirsch treats the last section, Un altro miracolo che adopo idio per questi sancti martiri (f. 7r-v), as if it were a separate work contained in the manuscript, but it is clearly the final chapter of this account of the Thebaid Legion.
   
• Leaves stained, some badly. Single quire starting to pull away from cover at bottom. Writing slightly rubbed on some leaves.
   

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Collation

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Binding

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Script

Provenance

• Acquired, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints in literature
• Christian legends
• Martyrdom (Christianity) in literature
• Theban Legion (Legendary saints)

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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