Smith College, Ms. 225

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS305

Shelfmark:

Ms. 225

Title:

f. 1 verso
Prooemialis epistula summo pontifici destinata super legenda Sancte Clare Virginis
Homilies

Author:

Thomas of Celano

Thomas of Celano WIKIDATA

Maximus of Turin

Maximus of Turin WIKIDATA

Date:

1300-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

s. XII; 1100-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

[Latin]

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Layout, 22 cm.: Quires numbered 2 and 3 ("ii" ff. 1 and 8v, and "iii" on ff. 9 and16v, within a circle formed of alternating red and text-ink colored "commas" and with four longer swirling lines in text-ink facing in the four directions, in the style used in Assisi; catchwords added in the lowermost area (catchword on f. 16v seems to read "ne stola," being the first words on the line of text...
Other decoration, f. 1: Some initials touched in red.
Script, f. 1: Protogothic.
Layout, f. 1: 2 columns of ca. 50 lines.

Former Owner(s):

The ms. has a contemporary inscription: Iste libellus est fratris thomassurii. Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253. Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography. Christian saints. Italy--Assisi.

Note:

Manuscript note: Ms. account of the life of St. Clare of Assisi, including a prefatory letter and 29 chapters.
Manuscript note: Franciscan who was St. Francis's first biographer.
22 cm.: Signatures: ii-iii.
22 cm.: At one time may have been part of a larger volume.
22 cm.: Written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand on vellum with headings and initials in red, and prickings still visible.
22 cm.: Bound in a part leaf of an 11th- or early 12th-cent. Homiliary in Latin.
f. 1: Reverse of the leaf is not visible due to the binding of the booklet; the visible side functions here as a flyleaf placed perpendicularly to the main book.
: Acta sanctorum, ed. novissima, in the second volume for August (Paris and Rome 1867) for 12 August, "De sancta Clara virgine," vol. 36:754-765 by an anonymous author. Thomas of Celano was active in 1257.
Incipit, : iam pro vilitate cinerum regno beata celico eterne stola glorie decoratur. Explicit vita beate clare virginis.
Explicit, : Quasi vetera mundi senecta urgente, fidei caligabat visus, morum nutabat gressus, marcescebat virilium operum fortitudo.
f. 1: Maximus of Turin, Homilies, Winter, Homily I, Before Christmas; PL 57:224A-226A. With bits of the text missing due to the cropping of the first column to fit the leaf around the Life of St. Catherine; other parts are not visible in the photography since they fall underneath the spine of the Life of St. Catherine.
Incipit, f. 1: Et quod ille fortassis petere de divinitate non audeat plurimorum//.
Explicit, f. 1: //corruptus et virgo, nisi quod magis ingerendo se indignus offensionem contrahit . . .

Keyword:

Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253.

Christian saints--Italy--Assisi--Biography.

Christian saints.

Italy--Assisi.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ms.225_48

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ms.225_48/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Smith College