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

Title

Authors

• Cynthius, Laurentius
• John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407

Other related names

• Guicciardinus, Jacobus, recipient

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915806293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122410775
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580629

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1475 and 1499

Place

Italy

Summary

Treatise on mercy, addressed to Jacobus Guicciardinus. Cynthius includes quotations and selections from various authors, including Augustine and Ambrose, and two pages in Greek taken from On wealth and poverty by St. John Chrysostom (f. 10r-v), followed by Martial's epigram, "Extra fortunam est, quicquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, solas semper habebis opes." The treatise is preceded by an epigram of three distichs in Latin and is followed by ten lines of Greek.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on introductory paragraph; author's and recipient's names taken from f. 2r.
   
• Incipit and explicit of introductory epigram: (f. 1v) Si cupis in caelum transcendere tramite recto ... aeternam vitam pro breviore Deus.
   
• Incipit and explicit of text: (f. 2r) Cum superioribus diebus Iacobe una essemus in foro ... (f. 11r) Haec habui mi Iacobe: quae carptim de misericordiae operibus ad te scriberem Hoc unum ego in calce addam: quod Leo pontifex maximus dicit in sermonibus ad populum ... [followed by a formulaic closing and ten lines of Greek, with the heading: Phōkyllidou].
   
• Dealer's description and two pages of transcription on file in the Library.
   

Watermark

Extent

Collation

Support

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Sold by La Medicea, 1957.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian life--Early works to 1800
• Mercy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Christian
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian

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