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Title

Franciscan miscellany

Authors

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
• Olivi, Pierre Jean, 1248 or 1249-1298
• Bartholomeus, de Pisis, -1401
• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
• Jacobus, de Tuderto
• Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
• Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447
• Nicholas IV, Pope, 1227-1292

Call number

Ms. Codex 869
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122468584
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178073

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1460 and 1510

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of treatises, bullae, and regulations of Franciscan interest, including works of Saints Augustine, Bonaventure, and Bernard and bullae of Eugene IV and Nicholas IV.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit (1st work): Hic confitetur homo miseriam suam.
   
• Incipit (5th work): Gratia est quaedam lux sole splendidior ... [Exp.] Sed altera proportio in Maria altera quidem. Quia fecundior sed ipsa.
   
• Incipit (6th work): Incipit itinerarium mentis in se ipsam secundum Bonaventuram. Ecce descripsi eam... [Exp.] Explicit itinerarium mentis secundum Bonaventuram. Deo gratias. Amen.
   
• Incipit (7th work): Hii sunt decem gradus humilitatis secundum Petrum Johannem ... [Exp.] ... per crucis humilitatem est super omnia exaltatus in secula seculorum. Deo gratias. Amen.
   
• Incipit (8th work): Ut divinorum praeceptorum observantiam...
   
• Incipit (9th work): Beati pauperes... [Exp.] ... voluntas.
   
• Incipit (10th work): Ut discam ubi nos oporteat ... [Exp.]Hoc opto, hoc desidero, hoc totis praecordiis concupisco. Deo gratias Amen. Explicit tractatus Hugonis de Sancto Victore de arra animae.
   
• Incipit (12th work): Hic incipiunt meditationes beati Bernardi Abbatis. Multi multa sciunt et semet ipsos nesciunt. ... [Exp.]...qui cum Patre et Spiritus Sancto vivit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen. Expliciunt meditationes beati Bernardi.
   
• Incipit (13th work): Incipit Jubilus eiusdem. Yesus dulcis memoria... [Exp.] Mentem incendit penitus. Hoc delectatur spiritus.
   
• Incipit (14th work): Misere, Domine pie, misere, pie, miserrimo peccatori... [Exp.] ...Deus [?] cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.
   
• Incipit (15th work): In nomine individue Trinitatis Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti Amen. Incipit quae formula vitae religiosorum maxime novitiorum secundum Bonaventuram. ... [Exp.] ... ut recipias gratiam quam preparavit Dominus diligentibus se. Amen. Deo gratias.
   
• Incipit (16th work): Intuere, o homo ... [Exp.] ... in hac vita & post hanc vitam mansionem [?] offerat in celesti.
   
• Incipit (17th work): Haec est copia sive exemplum infrascriptae bullae transcriptae et copiatae per me Pellotum notarium infrascriptum cum omnibus verbis in ea contentis et cum ceteris verbis a tergo contentis ut in ea plenius continetur... [Exp.] Datum Romae apud Sanctum Petrum. Anno Incarnationis [?] millesimo quatrigentesimo quatragesimo sexto [?] 6 Februarii, Pontificatus nostri anno sextodecimo.
   
• Incipit (18th work): Incipit ordo agendorum et dicendorum a sacerdote in missa privata et feriali secundum consuetudinem ecclesiae Romanae et primo de confessione facienda. ... [Exp.] ... haec dona, haec munera, haec [?] sacrificia Domini [?].
   
• Incipit (19th work): Incipit ordo fratrum et sororum de penitencia institutus a beato Francisco. Anno Domini MCC et confirmatus a sede apostolica anno Domini MCLXXXIX, XV Kalendas Septembris, cum bulla papali cuius tenore talis est. ... [Exp.] ... et celestium lunorum semper participatione gaudere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
   
• Incipit (20th work): Sicut pisces morantes ex aquam moriunt, sic monachi morantes ex cellam ...
   

Extent

204 leaves : 142 x 105 mm. bound to 144 x 110 mm

Foliation

Paper and parchment, 204; [1-204]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

Contemporary calf; only f. 142-153 are parchment.

Script

Written in a variety of Gothic and humanistic cursive scripts by many hands.

Subjects topical

• Franciscans
• Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800
• Novitiate--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Bulls
• Excerpts
• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Theology
• Christian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De meditationibus , f. 1r
• fol. 9v — De forma vitae regularis fratrum minorum, f. 9v
• fol. 15v — Compassio beatae Mariae, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — pars noni fructus et conformitas vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Christi, f. 16r
• fol. 66r — Quotations from Saints Bernard, Augustine, Jerome, etc., f. 66r
• fol. 68r — Itinerarium mentis in se ipsum, f. 68r
• fol. 73v — Decem gradus humilitatis, f. 73v
• fol. 74v — Notabile specialis ad contemplationes, f. 74v
• fol. 77v — Verba expositia huius evangelii, f. 77v
• fol. 78r — De arra animae, f. 78r
• fol. 85r — Unidentified fragment, f. 85r
• fol. 88v — Meditationes, f. 88v
• fol. 106v — Jubilus, f. 106v
• fol. 107v — Oratio in tribulatione, f. 107v
• fol. 110r — vitae religiosorum maxime novitiorum, f. 110r
• fol. 130v — De passione, f. 130v
• fol. 134r — Copia sive exemplum infrascriptae bullae, f. 134r
• fol. 138r — Ordo agendorum et dicendorum a sacerdote in missa privata et seriali, f. 138r
• fol. 142r — Ordo fratrum et sororum de penitentia ... bulla, f. 142r
• fol. 154r — Notabilia de libro vitis patrum extracta, f. 154r
• fol. 202r — Cura novitiorum, f. 202r