University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 271
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1478
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 271
- Title:
- Italian religious miscellany.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [1457?]
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 180 leaves : paper ; 218 x 145 (177 x 108) mm bound to 221 x 142 mm
- Note:
- Descriptive notes from bookseller Jacques Rosenthal on file in the Library.
Ms. codex.
Binding loose; cover badly deteriorated and torn. Cover pulling away from book block. Possibly some slight mildew damage in the binding. Various stains and smudges on the leaves. Back endleaf loose.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1457 (colophon, f. 85v).
First work, heading: Qui comenza lo prolago de le [sic] meditatione de la vita de Christo composto per frate Iacomo de lo ordine di frati minuri traslatato de gramatica in latino. Incipit: Chiasche una persona de questo mondo ... (f. 1r). Parts of the heading are missing due to a loss of the upper outer corner of f. 1. In the heading [Christo] is written Xpo.
Second work, incipit: Splendore superdo [sic] diu summo fatore ... (f. 87r).
Third work is missing an unknown amount from the beginning.
Fourth work, heading: El prolago della meditatione della vita de sanctu Iovanny Baptista (f. 100r). Incipit of prologue (after heading): Ad laude de dio & della vloriosa vergene Maria ... (f. 100r). Incipit of text: Or incomenzamo la prima parte. dicono li sancti de luy che fo el piu singulare homo ... (f. 102r).
Fifth work, heading: Questa siene la vita de sancto Honofrio confessore (f. 164r). Incipit: Panuntiu humile servo della vostra santita a tucti li servi de dio ... (f. 164r).
First work copied by Johannes Benedicti Pauli de Nursia, who finished on 4 March 1457 (colophon, f. 85v: Expletus fuit liber iste per me Iohannem Benedicti Pauli de Nursia die quarta mensis martii 1457).
No indication of copyist or date for the other works, but they appear roughly contemporary.
The third, fragmentary work is written on a different sort of paper from the other portions of the manuscript.
Foliation: Paper, 180; 1-10, 12-91, [93-180]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various humanistic scripts by different hands.
Decoration: Red used in some portions for headings and initials.
Binding: Contemporary vellum with ties.
Inscription on inside front cover: Questo libro e de Santa Eucharistia de la gla gloria[?].
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808853503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zk55p5w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
