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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1156

Shelfmark:

MS C66

Title:

La mistica theolozia dellamore divino

La mistica theolozia dellamore divino

Author:

Hugh, of Balma, active 13th century

Hugh of Balma WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Lena, suor active 1500

Lena suor WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

December 3, 1500

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 90 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 203 x 140 (149 x 95) mm bound to 214 x 150 mm +

Former Owner(s):

Turazza, Domenico, 1813-1892

Domenico Turazza WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from opening rubric on folio 1r.
Manuscript codex
Collation: ii (modern paper, i is pastedown) + ii (modern paper) + 90 (paper) + ii (modern paper, ii is pastedown): 1-910
Foliation: Two sets of foliation: contemporary foliation in ink, possibly by the scribe, in upper right corner (1-81); modern foliation in pencil at center in upper margin (81, 85, 90). Missing foliation supplied by cataloger.
Signatures: Quires signed A-I in pencil in lower right corner on the recto of first folio of each gathering by Alexandra Mason, May 1963.
Watermarks: Two watermarks in the textblock: a bull's head surmounted by a cross around which a serpent is twined (found only on one sheet, similar to WZMA AT8500-4546_99); an encircled anchor surmounted by a star (similar to Piccard PPO 6-5-195); single watermark on the accompanying material: a pair of lilies (fleurs-de-lis) (unidentified).
Layout: Written in 27 long lines, below top line. Ruled in ink, with full-length vertical bounding lines. Single pricking marks visible on the tail-edge margins of most leaves.
Script: Written by Suor [Sister] Lena from the women's monastery of San Francesco della Croce in Venice, Italy in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens.
Decoration: 2-line initials in plain red, excised and pasted from another manuscript (folios 1r-81v); sentence initials highlighted in red; most rubrics in red.
Binding: Modern; after 1852. Bound in brown leather over paper boards. Blind-tooling on front and back cover. Four raised bands. A spiked round paper label adhered to tail of spine, with a handwritten inscription in ink: "S.III.5 / Hugo de Palm[a] [underlined] / Ms. 1500 / 4o.74414."
Accompanying materials: A note from Bartolomeo Sorio to Domenico Turazza, written sideways on the upper half of one side of a single sheet of paper. The sheet is folded into two and tipped in between the front flyleaves and the textblock, now forming a bifolium.
Origin: Written by a nun of the order of St Clare, Suor [Sister] Lena, from the women's monastery of San Francesco della Croce in Venice, Italy and completed on December 3, 1500: "Scrita nel monast[er]io de le done de Sa[n] Fra[n]çesco della crose de Vei[n]esia de lordene de S[an]c[t]a Chiara de hoserva[n]çia. Nelliani del n[ost]ro signor mis[er] Ih[es]u Chr[ist]o 1500 finito a di 3...
Former shelfmark: MS Y128
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS C66
In good condition except for minor water damage on the tail edge, near spine-folds and outer corners. Front and back pastedowns, flyleaves and the first few leaves are stained from the turn-ins. Staining in the left margin on folio 81v. Minor damage on the binding along the spine and the outer edges. Very few marginal corrections by the scribe.
MS C66 was one of the two primary witnesses to the text used by Bartolomeo Sorio in the 1852 edition, La Teologia mistica attribuita a San Bonaventura (siglum MS Veneto).
The manuscript was owned by its scribe, Suor [Sister] Lena, a nun of the order of St Clare from the women's monastery of San Francesco della Croce in Venice, Italy in 1500, according to the colophon on folio 81v. It was later part of the collection of Domenico Turazza of the University of Padua, Italy, during which time the 1852 edition of the De theologia mystica was prepared. It was loaned...

Keyword:

Watermarks

Blind tooled bindings

Mysticism--Catholic Church

Early works

Theology

Manuscripts, Medieval

Kansas--Lawrence

Manuscripts, Italian

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

University of Kansas