New York Academy of Medicine, MS 15

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11416

Shelfmark:

MS 15

Title:

Collationes de decem praeceptis
Lignum vitae
Operationes Ihesu Christi

Author:

Bonaventure

Bonaventure WIKIDATA

Place:

Northeastern Italy

Northeastern Italy TGN

Italy

Italy TGN

Veneto

Veneto TGN

Date:

First half of the fifteenth century

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

end of the fifteenth century

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 74; parchment; 222 x 142; 221 x 134

Former Owner(s):

Edward Clark Streeter

Edward Clark Streeter WIKIDATA

New York Academy of Medicine

New York Academy of Medicine WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: 2 columns of 31 lines, ruled in lead.
Layout: 2 columns ruled in ink (but leaves are cut, so line count is not possible); text is copied in 2 sizes according to liturgical function
Script: Gothic
Decoration: Alternating red and blue flourished initials. Rubrics in red.
Decoration: On back flyleaf, one 2-line initial in blue with red flourishing, set on a white-patterned square ground; one 2-line initial in red with blue flourishing; 2-line initials alternating red and blue; 1-line initials in red; slashing in red of initials within the text; red rubrics.
Binding: Bound, s. XVI, in vellum with contemporary leather ties. Manuscript title “Opusculum sancti Bonaventurae” both on the spine and on the bottom edge of the book block in dark brown ink; old shelfmark “99” on the spine.
On the last page (f.74v), the catchword “Incipit liber” referring to another text formerly present at the end of the book.
Provenance: On f. 1, the lower right margin cut away to remove a 16th century note of a former owner, leaving only its beginning, “Iste liber fuit quondam domini Sal//.”
Provenance: On front pastedown, bookplate of Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947); printed label from the NY Academy of Medicine with acquisition date of this manuscript in 1928; on f. 1v, stamp of the NY Academy of Medicine, date and acquisition number.
Gatherings 1-5 of ten leaves each, gatherings 6-7 of twelve leaves each, with quire (as letter) and leaf (as number) signatures in the first half of each quire: a-e^1-5^, f-g^1-6^. Catchwords at the end of the gatherings. Guide letters (f.55); text of the rubrics in the margins.
Probably copied before the canonization date in 1482 of St. Bonaventure who is called here in the rubric “frater Bonaventura.”
Spelling mistakes that double the letter “l” (as occur here) are frequent in northwestern Italy, along the valley of the Po river. On the last page (f.74v), the catchword “Incipit liber” referring to another text formerly present at the end of the book.
Bonaventure, Opera omnia, in 10 volumes (Ad Claras Aquas [Quaracchi] ex typographia Collegii s. Bonaventurae, 1882-1901), here his Collationes de decem praeceptis, vol. 5:507-532. The scribe of this manuscript noted in the margins the authors cited by Bonaventure in his text.
Bonaventure, Opera omnia, in 10 volumes (Ad Claras Aquas [Quaracchi] ex typographia Collegii s. Bonaventurae, 1882-1901), here his Lignum vitae, vol. 8:68-86.
Bonaventure, additions to his Lignum vitae, printed under the title, “LXXII operationes Iesu Christi,” here mainly as given in vol. 8:86-87.
For parts of this text, see: Sebastiano Ammiani [1503-1568], Christiana institutio virtutum et vitiorum (Lyons: Compagnon & Taillandier, 1669). Note that although the script in the manuscript is a very formal and well-formed gothic, it is very highly abbreviated as if these were simply notes for someone writing a sermon.
Parts of the masses for summer Sundays (21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Sundays after Pentecost)

Keyword:

treatises

devotional literature

Theology

Holding Institution:

New York Academy of Medicine