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Title

De amore et dilectione dei et proximi, ac de forma vitae . . . etc.

Authors

• Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
• Lentulus, Publius
• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153

Other related names

• Chasles, M. 1793-1880, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 925
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942377533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183632688
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4237753

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1400-1425

Place

Veneto?, Italy

Summary

Collection of works (with preceding table of contents) by Albertano da Brescia on civic peace, the community, and the role of the individual; also includes a letter by Bernard of Clairvaux, and a copy of the apocryphal letter of P. Lentulus to the Roman senate describing the physical appearance of Jesus Christ; manuscript has been completed in two parts (first part, f. i-ii, 1-48; sectiond part, f. 49-86, i-ii) which have been bound together.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from table of contents (f. iii recto); 17th-century title page lists titles of other works by Albertano (f. ii recto).
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Oiseau 12250 (1592) and 12251 (1590).

Extent

90 leaves : 231 x 137 (168 x 85) mm. bound to 238 x 140 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (17th-century paper) + 90 + ii (17th-century paper); 1² 2-7⁸ 8-11¹⁰; [ii], 1-86, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords in pen-flourished boxes on the lower center of the last verso of quires 2-7; quires 8-11 have catchwords on the lower center verso of the last verso of each quire.

Support

Parchment

Binding

17th-century vellum with gilt title Opere spiri. temp.

Layout

Written in 35 long lines; ruled in lead and drypoint; prickings visible; rulings in the second part (f. 49r to end) done with a rake.

Decoration

Illuminated 3-line initial "Q" with flowers, gold, and blue, red, green, pink, and yellow ink (f. 50r), pen-flourished 2-line initials in red and blue (f. 49r-84r).

Script

Written in an Italian Gothic book hand by two scribes in red and brown ink.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Michel Chasles (bookplate, inside upper cover: "Ex bibliotheca Michaelis Chasles Acad. Scientiar. Socii." with engraver's signature L. Benard).
   
• Sold by Herbert Reichner (New York), 1966.
   

Subjects topical

• Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Christian life--Early works to 1800
• Christian ethics--Early works to 1800
• Consolation--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Italy
• Italian
• Illumination
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber de amore et dilectione dei, f. 1r
• fol. 50r — Liber consolationis et consilii, f. 50r
• fol. 77v — Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi, f. 77v
• fol. 85r — Epistola, f. 85r
• fol. 86v — Epistola ad senatum romanum, f. 86v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 8v — Decorated catchword, f. 8v
• fol. 16v — Decorated catchword, f. 16v
• fol. 20r — Manicule, f. 20r
• fol. 24v — Decorated catchword, f. 24v
• fol. 25v — Manicule, f. 25v
• fol. 26v — Manicule, f. 26v
• fol. 27v — Manicule, f. 27v
• fol. 32v — Decorated catchword, f. 32v
• fol. 33v — Manicule, f. 33v
• fol. 34r — Manicule, f. 34r
• fol. 40v — Decorated catchword, f. 40v
• fol. 50r — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 50r