Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History.
Catholic Church.
History.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Catholic Church -- Theology -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Soul -- Early works to 1800.
Soul.
Spirit -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Catholic Church.
Spirit.
Theology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Text of treatise De spiritu et anima (f. 1r-56v), erroneously attributed to St. Augustine. This appears to be identical to the treatise De anima et spiritu by an Alcherus of Clairvaux. Also includes an unidentified theological text, erroneously identified in the manuscript as St. Augustine's Soliloquia (f. 56v). There is a table of contents for this work on f. 56v-57v.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution to St. Augustine (Divus Augustus) taken from inside front flyleaf and from spine.
Incipit (1st work): Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum ... (f. 1r).
Explicit (1st work): ... aliud non sit quae ratio. (f. 56v). This explicit is characteristic of Norpoth's "Type I" of the text (Norpoth, p. 7). Contains chapters 1-33 only (out of 65).
Incipit (2nd work): Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus ... (f. 58r).
Explicit (2nd work): ... omnis beatitudo: omnis clementia sit deo patri et spiritui sancto. amen. (f. 143v).
Collation: i (contemporary parchment) + 144 + i (contemporary parchment); 1-6⁸, 7-9¹⁰, 10⁸, 11-16¹⁰; [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand. Scribe identifies himself as Gaspar on f. 56v and 143v.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in gold, blue, green, red and white (f. 1r, 58r); marginalia and section headings in red.
Binding: 15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; rebacked in the 19th century; joints worn with red rot.
Origin: Written in Italy 13 September, 1463 (f. 143v)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's to Henry Drury, 26 Feb. 1821, lot 37.
Sold by Drury at auction at R. H. Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 270.
Sold by William Allen, 1955.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 146 (Ms. Lea 1).
Norpoth, Leo. Der Pseudo-augustinische Traktat: De spiritu et anima (Munich, 1924). He did not know this manuscript.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 17

Contributor:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Alcher, de Clairvaux, active 12th century.
Gaspar, scribe.
Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner.

Related Work:

Alcher, de Clairvaux, active 12th century. De anima et spiritu.

Contains:

Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum.
Soliloquia.
Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus.

OCLC:

155959175

Web link:

Collation model