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Title

Leggende dell' Apostolo St. Beato, e dell' Abbate St. Fredolino, Predicatori ne' Svizzeri

Authors

• Canisius, Petrus, Saint, 1521-1597

Other related names

• Morbio, Carlo, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 325
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580949
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580949

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, apparently translated from a German printed edition

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1625

Place

Italy

Summary

Account of the legend of St. Beatus by St. Peter Canisius. Despite the title, this manuscript consists only of the life of St. Beatus; the life of St. Fridolinus is not included.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from label on upper cover.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r): Due historie christiane, curiose, e verediche cavate da molti antiche scrittori, di nuovo riformate, e ristampate. La prima dell' Apostolo S. Beato, primo predicatore ne' Svizzeri, la 2a. del famoso Abbate S. Fridolino primo predicatore di Clarona Cantone de Suizzer[i]. Composte per il Padre Pietro Canisio Theologo della Comp[agni]a di Gesù, superioru[m] permissu, anno 1590. Nella stampa di Friburgo in Vehtlandia d' Abraamo Gemperlin.
   
• Note in later hand at bottom of title page (f. 1r): Sono ambedue dette Vite stampate come sopra in lingua Tedesca; e la prima d'esse è qui tradotta in Italiano.
   
• Modern dealer's description in German pasted inside upper cover.
   
• Backer-Sommervogel (II, 679) lists this ms. as the only Italian translation of the legend of St. Beatus (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

68 leaves : 271 x 189 (237 x 135) mm. bound to 274 x 190 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 68 + i (modern paper); [1-68]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper boards. The leaves are not all of the same size. Some have been folded slightly to fit the dimensions of the cover; others are slightly smaller. Cover worn, particularly at hinges. Various stains and smudges. Some oxidation of ink. Edges of some leaves slightly torn and frayed. On most pages the text fills the space between the gutter and the edge, leaving no side margins. Many pages also lack topic and bottom margins.

Script

Written in cursive script by several hands. Also includes various marginal and interlinear corrections and notes in various hands.

Provenance

• Formerly part of the Morbio collection (seller's description, inside upper cover).
   
• Accessioned, 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800
• Devotional literature, Italian
• Hagiography

Genres

• Codices
• Hagiographies
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover