Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 869: Franciscan miscellany University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 869: Franciscan miscellany are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 ... 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 869 9931780733503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122468584 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178073 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. Latin Franciscan miscellany 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 1r De meditationibus , f. 1r 9v De forma vitae regularis fratrum minorum, f. 9v 15v Compassio beatae Mariae, f. 15v 16r pars noni fructus et conformitas vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Christi, f. 16r 66r Quotations from Saints Bernard, Augustine, Jerome, etc., f. 66r 68r Itinerarium mentis in se ipsum, f. 68r 73v Decem gradus humilitatis, f. 73v 74v Notabile specialis ad contemplationes, f. 74v 77v Verba expositia huius evangelii, f. 77v 78r De arra animae, f. 78r 85r Unidentified fragment, f. 85r 88v Meditationes, f. 88v 106v Jubilus, f. 106v 107v Oratio in tribulatione, f. 107v 110r vitae religiosorum maxime novitiorum, f. 110r 130v De passione, f. 130v 134r Copia sive exemplum infrascriptae bullae, f. 134r 138r Ordo agendorum et dicendorum a sacerdote in missa privata et seriali, f. 138r 142r Ordo fratrum et sororum de penitentia ... bulla, f. 142r 154r Notabilia de libro vitis patrum extracta, f. 154r 202r Cura novitiorum, f. 202r

parchment and paper

 204 leaves : 142 x 105 mm. bound to 144 x 110 mm Paper and parchment, 204; [1-204]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in a variety of Gothic and humanistic cursive scripts by many hands.

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

Written in Italy between 1460 and 1510 (Zacour-Hirsch).

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