Epistulae; De Clementia; Sermo de corpore Christi; Meditationes; Epistula de morte S. Hireronymi; De quatuor virtutibus; Epistula ad Cyrillum; Epistula ad Augustinum, etc.
Extent: i+[6]+190 (fol. 1 lacking)+i; 207 x 138 mm bound to 215 x 145 mm; parchment
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The third text, Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona: Epistola de morte Sancti Hieronimi, lacking first folio for proper incipit Binding: Modern calf half-binding sewn on four thongs, parchment-like paper over cardboard boards Layout: Single column of thirty-one lines ruled in hard point; written area: 155 x 85 mm Script: Humanistic Decoration: Blue or red three- to seven-line initials marking the beginning of various texts, some with red and blue penwork extending into the margin; alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; numerous marginal annotations or corrections, tiemarks in the margins, maniculae pointing to specific passages in text Related resource: Migne, Jacques Paul. Patrologia Latina. Paris. Related resource: Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. 1866. Vindobonae: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky. Related resource: Fohlen, Jeannine. "Un apocryphe de Sénèque mal connu: le De uerborum copia". Mediaeval Studies. 42 (1980). Related resource: Sénèque. De la clémence, texte établi et traduit par F. Préhac, Paris, 1967. Related resource: Palmer, Ralph Graham, and Sénèque. Seneca's De remediis fortuitorum and the Elizabethans. Chicago: Institute of Elizabethan Studies. 1953. Related resource: Mohan, G. E., "Initia Operum Franciscalium (XIII-XV c.)," Franciscan Studies, 37 (1977): p. 236. Related resource: Schneyer, J. B. Repertorium der lateinischen sermones des Mittelalters, III, Munster, 1971. Provenance: Probably copied in a Franciscan environment (because of the particular combination of texts), and most likely in central Italy (on the basis of the script and the delicate penwork decoration); unidentified erased stamp on first folio of first quire containing table of contents; Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund
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