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Title

Liturgical Miscellany with Prayers, Office of St. Catherine, Mass of the Virgin, and Biblical Readings, etc.

Other related names

• Corbinello, Nanna, former owner
• Corbinello, Giovan Battista, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 50
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms50.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Florence?, Italy

Summary

This is an Italian manuscript from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century that contains miscellaneous liturgical texts including: various prayers, both in Latin and Italian, including a prayer by Thomas Aquinas and prayers at the Elevation of the Host; the Office of Saint Catherine; The Mass in honor of Mary; the Beginning of John's Gospel; and the Athanasian Creed. There are five full illuminated borders (fols. 1, 12, 51, 70v, and 71) probably added in the eighteenth century. An early ownership inscription inside the front cover suggests that the manuscript was owned by a Florentine woman, "Nanna," possibly the wife of Giovan Battista Corbinello.

Extent

I+78+i; 135 x 95 mm bound to 145 x 104 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

i-vii10, viii8

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower center margin, lacking in quires one, four, five and seven

Binding

Eighteenth-century(?) brown leather over pasteboard, with the original (Italian, fifteenth-century) front and back covers laid down; tooled in blind with a border of two sets of five fillets, a chain pattern between them, forming a rectangular center panel of three rope-interlace medallions; rounded spine with two raised bands

Layout

Single column, nineteen lines, ruled in brown ink with full-length single vertical bounding lines; written area: 101 x 65 mm

Decoration

Five full illuminated borders (fols. 1, 12, 51, 70v, and 71) probably added in the eighteenth century, with various decorations including numerous floral and leaf designs, a peacock, a coat of arms, a grasshopper, and an angel playing an instrument; one- to two-line red initials beginning sections throughout, some with simple red pen decoration; majuscules within text slashed with red; rubrics, all in the same ink used for the text, often copied in capitals highlighted with red diagonal slashes

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• The contents provide the strongest evidence of the original owner of this manuscript, but the evidence is not without ambiguity, and further study is certainly called for. It may have been copied for a lay owner with strong ties to the Dominicans (possibly a member of the third order, or a lay confraternity), but it also seems possible that it was copied for a Dominican Friar or nun (feminine forms used in the prayer on fol. 13v); certainly its owner was both devout and learned, given the presence of lengthy vernacular prayers, numerous Latin prayers, and more formal liturgical texts including texts for Masses for the Virgin, an Office of St. Catherine, and the beginning of St. John's Gospel (in Latin). Early ownership inscription, inside front cover: "Questo si e uno librizino in lo quale se contene molte bene et diuote oratione a onore de dio de la gloriosa Vergine maria et de molti sancti del paradiso. Lo quale librizino e de me Nanna donna de Iohane Baptista Corbinello de Firenza." This inscription tells us that this "little book that contains many good and devout prayers" was owned by a Florentine woman, "Nanna," possibly the wife of Giovan Battista Corbinello, who was vicar of Pescia and Pieve S. Stephen, as well as Commissioner of Pistoia, c. 1499-1502 (SIUSA, Online Resources); its script suggests that it was added soon after this book was copied, probably in the early sixteenth century. The Corbinello family, documented in Florence since the late thirteenth century, by the fifteenth century was one of the Republic's wealthiest families, active as wool merchants, landowners and merchant bankers. Purchased for Bryn Mawr College Library from the Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund.
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• 18th century
• Liturgy
• Prayer book

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Prayers said at of the canonical hours, in Italian; incipit: Qui comincia uno spechio e una contemplatione a tutte lore del di e della nocte della sancta et penosa passione del nostro dolcissimo Saluatore Messer ihesu; explicit: qual cosa molto orebo il dolore ella pensa
• fol. 12v — Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Latin; incipit: Sancta maria succurre miseris uiua pusillamines
• fol. 13r — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Firmiter credo et puro corde et ore pro fiteor sanctam fidem catholicam
• fol. 14v — Prayer by Thomas Aquinas, Latin; incipit: Concede mihi misericors deus qui tibi placita sunt ardenter concupiscere
• fol. 16r — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Deus angelorum munitionibus sancta ierusalem uisitas et propitius protegis
• fol. 16v — Prayers, Italian; incipit: Madonna sancta maria perpetua uergini madre di Somma benignita et misericordia. Per quello coltello del quore che passo lanima vestra quando el uestro unigenito figliuolo Signor nostro yesu christo
• fol. 24r — Prayers, Latin; incipit: O domine ihesu christe pater dulcissime rogo te ut amore illius gaudii quod dilectissima
• fol. 24v — Prayers, Italian; incipit: Signore mio yhesu il quale septe parole nel lultimo dilla uita tua pendent in croce
• fol. 25v — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui ex humano generi
• fol. 25v — Prayers, Italian; incipit: Signore mio dolcissimo ihesu Christo il quale diuolunta del tuo padre
• fol. 27v — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori et custos ominibus horis et diebus
• fol. 32v — Prayers, Italian; incipit: Ihesu nazareno re dell uniuerso Gloria risguarda
• fol. 32v — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Domine yhesu christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem
• fol. 37r — Office of Saint Catherine of Alexandria; incipit: Deprecare regem celi pro me uirgo katherina
• fol. 39r — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Domine yhesu christe misericors et miserator
• fol. 40r — Prayers, Italian; incipit: Bellissima gema di dio splendida katherina glorosa sposa
• fol. 44v — Prayers, Latin; incipit: Deus qui beatum Nicolaum pontificem tuum innumeris decorasti miraculis
• fol. 47r — Prayers at the Elevation of the Host; incipit: Adoro te domine iesum christe que confiteor
• fol. 51r — Prayers and Litany, Latin; incipit: Uirgo audi nos, Uirgo exaudi nos
• fol. 57v — The Mass in honor of Mary; incipit: Salve sancta parens enixa puerpera regem
• fol. 59r — Beginning of John's Gospel; incipit: On principio erat uerbum
• fol. 59v — Hymn, Prayers, Litanies, Athanasian Creed; in Latin; incipit: Pange lingua gloriosi corporis misterium sanguini
• fol. 72r — Additional Text in Italian; incipit: mente percia scuna ghoccola disangue laquale usci delcorpo
• fol. 73r — One Hundred Meditations and Petitions of Christ's Suffering; incipit: Domine yhesu christe qui permisisti a maria madalena santos pedes tuos lavari

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Early ownership inscription: "Questo si e uno librizino in lo quale se contene molte bene et diuote oratione a onore de dio de la gloriosa Vergine maria et de molti sancti del paradiso. Lo quale librizino e de me Nanna donna de Iohane Baptista Corbinello de Firenza."
• Inside front cover — Bookseller's note in Norwegian in pencil
• fol. 1r — Full border of flowers with stems and leaves; a peacock and coat of arms in the lower margin
• fol. 12r — Full border with bird in the lower margin and a grasshopper in the inner margin
• fol. 51r — Full border
• fol. 70v — Full border
• fol. 71r — Full border with an angel playing an instrument (psaltery) in lower margin
• Inside back cover — Notes in ink
• Inside back cover — Notes in pencil