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Title

Epistolae; Vita s. martini, etc.

Authors

• Eusebius, of Cremona, Saint, -approximately 423 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n86017158)
• Severus, Sulpicius (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79129029)
• Pseudo-Augustine
• Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint, 538-594 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n80128596)
• Pseudo-Cyrillus (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2003010870)

Other related names

• Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2007116134)
• Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr98044437)
• Saibante, Giulio, former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99022084)
• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n88244649)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 10
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms10.shtml
• Goodhart: 11

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Verona?, Northern Italy

Summary

This is an Italian manuscript from the second half of the fifteenth century, which contains: Pseudo-Eusebius' Epistola de morte Hieronomi ad Damasium; Pseudo-Augustine's Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi ad Cyrillum; Pseudo-Cyrillus' Epistola ad beatum Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi; Sulpicius Severus' De vita beati Martini, his Tituli metrici de Santo Martino, and his Dialogus I-III; Gregory of Tours' Narrationes in obitu et de prima translatione; and Vita Sancti Zenonis.

Notes

• Previously Goodhart 11
   

Extent

I+324; 180 x 118mm bound to 190 x 128mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-15 (10), 16 (4), 17-33 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower margin, center, verso

Binding

Original wooden boards, covered with early nineteenth-century English red velvet, blind-stamped front and back; on spine tooled in gold on black leather panels: "EUSEBII ET/ ALIORUM EPISTOLAE" and "VITA SANCTI MARTINI"; in ink on the lower fore edge: "Epis: B. Eiusebii."

Layout

Single column, twenty-one lines, ruled in pale brown ink with double vertical bounding lines, full length in ink; occasional prickings visible in lower margin

Decoration

One ten-line pink initial, one six-line pink initial, and one four-line pink initial all on gold backgrounds; on fol. 1r a border on three sides with acanthus leaves and an unidentified coat of arms centered in the lower margin inside a twelve-sided, pink-framed roundel infilled with gold, with the arms mostly effaced, but a helmet still partially visible; numerous three-line blue or red initials throughout with fine blue, red, or brown penwork extensions; red or blue paragraph markers; headings in red throughout; guide letters for decorator often visible

Script

Written in a neat free-humanistic script by several scribes

Provenance

• Previously belonged to Henry Drury and W.M. Voynich, among others; bookplate inside front cover "The Library of Bryn Mawr College, The Gift of Howard L. Goodhart"
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 10.
• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1677, no. 11.
• Ps.-Eusebius Cremonensis, Epistola de morte Hieronomi ad Damasium; PL 22, 239-282.
• Ps.-Augustine, Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi ad Cyrillum; PL 22, 281-289.
• Ps.-Cyrillus,Epistola ad beatum Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi; PL 22, 289-326.
• Sulpicius Severus, De vita beati Martini; PL 20, 159-184.
• Sulpicius Severus, Dialogus I; PL 20, 183-202.
• Sulpicius Severus, Dialogus II; PL 20, 201-211.
• Sulpicius Severus, Dialogus III; PL 20, 211-222.
• Gregoris Turonensis Scripta, Narrationes in obitu et de prima translatione; Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, 5619-5623.
• Tituli metrici de S. Martino; Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, Novum Supplementum, 5624 b-d. Carmina Sulpicio Severo attributa; PL 74, 671-674.
• Vita Sancti Zenonis; Bibliotheca hagiographica latina v. 2, 9010.
• Historia translationis Sancti Zenonis; PL 11, 207-214.
• Peebles, Bernard M. "Girolamo da Prato and his Manuscripts of Sulpicius Severus," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 13 [1936], 7-66.
• Maffei, Scipione. Indice delli libri, che si ritrovano nella raccolta del nobile Signor Giulio Saibanti patrizio veronese [Verona, 1734] 213.

Keywords

• Biography
• 15th century
• Christian
• Italian
• Illumination
• Original binding
• Italy
• History
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Pseudo-Eusebius Cremonensis, Epistola de morte Hieronomi ad Damasium; incipit: Patri reuerendissimo damasio portuensi episcopo et christianissimo romanorum senatori theodosio Eusebius olim Ieronimi sanctissimi discipulus nunc uero eodem orbatus lumine pium dolorem et suauissimum gaudium.; explicit: Vale igitur Ieronime gloriose uiri semper faciens apud deum memoriam ut tua ualeamus piissima intercessione et in presenti ab omnibus protegi nocuis et in futuro gaudia que iam tu possides adhipisci.
• fol. 72r — Pseudo-Augustine, Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi ad Cyrillum; incipit: Gloriosissimi christiane fidei athlete sancte matris ecclesie lapidis angularis in quo ad modum firmata consistit nunc uero in celesti gloria sideris radiantis olim ieronimi presbyteri laudes uenerabilis; explicit: ut dum in illo steteris loco quo illud sacrum eximi Ieronimi cadauer quiescit eius interuentionibus recommendes. Quoniam nulli dubium est quod ea que optat idem Ieronimus potest continuo obtinere non in suo aliqualiter defraudatur desiderio.
• fol. 86r — Pseudo-Cyrillus, Epistola ad beatum Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi; incipit: Uenerabili uiro episcoporum eximio augustino yponensi presuli Cirilius Ierosolimitanus pontifex et omnium sacerdotum infimus illius sequi uestigia cuius in terris sanctitas radiare non cessat.; explicit: Si quid non superfluum in utile et non bonum solum mee insipientie et negligentie causa hoc accidisse ab omnibus iudicetur.
• fol. 155r — Sulpicius Severus, De vita beati Martini; incipit: Seuerus desiderio fratri karissimo salutem. Ego quid frater unanimis libellum quem de uita sancti martini scripseram sceda sua comprimere et intra domesticos parietes cohibere decreueram; explicit: Illi post triumphos suos in tartara seua trudentur. Martinus habrahe sinu letus excipitur. Martinus hic pauper et modicus celum diues ingreditur.
• fol. 205r — Sulpicius Severus, Dialogus I; incipit: Ubi postumianus edisserit prosperitatem nauigationis et omnem sue peregrinationis historiam; explicit: Vnde prima illius interi mutilando in gesta pretereo, necquam ea attingam que laicus egit ac monachus, nec uero audita ab aliis potius quam que uidi ipse dicturus sum.
• fol. 240r — Sulpicius Severus, Dialogus II; incipit: Vbi intra amphibalum sibi tunicam latentur eduxit; explicit: Verum quia de martini uirtutibus nequaquam explicari uniuersa potuerunt, hec uos hodie audisse sufficiat, cras reliqua dicemus. Ita pariter accepta galli in sponsione surreximus.
• fol. 261r — Sulpicius Severus, Dialogus III; incipit: Vbi multitudo hominum insperata occurrit audire gallum de sancti martini uirtutibus locuturum; explicit: Nec cum maxime flebili uoce gemeremus omnium lacrimis per nostra lamenta commotis, cum magna quidem martini admiratione, sed non minore ex nostris fletibus dolere discessum est.
• fol. 283v — Gregory of Tours, Narrationes in obitu et de prima translatione; incipit: Clemens trinitas est una diuinitas. Vt autem per sacramentum cognoscatur. Vnitas est ab eo qui est et spiritus sanctus a quo qui est et unigenitus.; explicit: Nos uero de quanto nostro tempore aut fieri uidimus, aut factum certe cognouimus silere nequiuimus.
• fol. 291v — Sulpicius Severus, Tituli metrici de Santo Martino; incipit: Venimus en istuc, hic nemo personat; explicit: et in futuro patrocinia illius permerebis. Lege ut credas, crede, ut uiuas in eternum.
• fol. 297r — Vita Sancti Zenonis; incipit: Qui precepit aquam populo producere petram, hic ualet ingenium molificare meum. Vnde tuam uitam zeno sanctissime scribam. Arbitror esse pium signa referre stilum. In quibus excelsus crescis uelut alta expressus.; explicit: Deinde clam qua palam artifex dirus nocuit qui magis dolis contegnis quam uiribus confidit pertinus sacerdotes apertis indiciis sathan inter filios dei inuenisse cognouerunt.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "The Library of Bryn Mawr College, The Gift of Howard L. Goodhart"
• Inside front cover — In ink: "321"
• Inside front cover — In pencil: "Census 1677 no 11"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in ink: "MS. pulcher in Memor: H. Drury," a table of contents and the remark: "I consider this as a very curious volume. 1023"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — In pencil: "March 1943 gift of Mr Howard L Goodhart"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — In pencil: "M 6253"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — In pencil: "no 58"
• fol. 1r — Ten-line pink initial P
• fol. 1r — Partial border on three sides with acanthus leaves
• fol. 1r — An unidentified coat of arms centered in the lower margin inside a twelve-sided, pink-framed roundel infilled with gold, with the arms mostly effaced, but a helmet still partially visible
• fol. 155r — Four-line pink initial S on gold background
• fol. 262r — Copied by the scribe, a marginal notation by Maggio Maggi, a Veronese jurist, in the margin of his manuscript of Severus: "hoc ferrum quod gladium uel ensem uulgo appellamus, uidi et tetigi ego madius de madiis in ciuitate Verona in domo spectabilium de Biuilaquis die sabbati quarto Augusti de 1425"; in another hand: "hodie uero seruatur in Monasterio Fratrum Minorum in templo quod Carrote uulgo nominatur in agro Veronensi."
• fol. 297r — Six-line pink initial Q on gold background