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

Title

Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... etc.

Authors

• Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
• Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 744
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79958745
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487560

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1350 and 1399

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of works by Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis with dates of their composition in the explicit or incipit of each, plus a poem by Petrus Damianus on the final folio.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title of predominant work; titles for individual works taken from 15th-century index (f. 1), which also includes a list of headings for the first three works of Albertano.
   
• Sermons begin on f. 58r, 60v, 63r, 65v, and 68v.
   
• Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r).
   
• Attribution to Peter Damian from Zacour-Hirsch, taken from bookseller's description, with the title Rhythmos ad diversos mundi status; this work often appears in collections of Albertano da Brescia and is sometimes attributed to him as well.
   
• Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge.
   

Extent

70 leaves : 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm. bound to 270 x 204 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 70 + ii (modern paper); [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century stamped calf, front hinge split.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1.

Decoration

Historiated initial depicting a knight with shield, in green, pink, purple, red, yellow and gold, with a botanical border, probably 15th-century and German, painted over earlier illumination (f. 2r). Rubricated, with capitals in red and blue, decorated 2-line and 4-line initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork ornamentation and decorated borders at the left edge of most columns throughout the text.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Consolation--Early works to 1800
• Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Christian life--Early works to 1800
• Christian ethics--Early works to 1800
• Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Sermons
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century

Keywords

• 14th century
• Illumination
• Collection of Sermons
• Christian
• Italy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Index (15th century), f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi [1255], f. 2r

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Historiated initial, Initial I, Knight with shield, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Illuminated border, f. 2r
• fol. 25r — Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 25r
• fol. 29v — Penwork initial, Initial H, f. 29v
• fol. 52r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 52r
• fol. 58v — Penwork initial, Initial C, f. 58v
• fol. 68v — Penwork initial, Initial R, f. 68v