Details

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 96.

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Doctor of theology; named chancellor of the University of Paris in 1395.

Summary:

Collection of works by Jean Gerson (works 1-11; 21-24), together with a few works not by him. The pastedown in the front of the volume lists its contents, but does not include works 21-24 and the subsequent notes (f. 157v-159v).

Contents:

Opuscula et tractatus ipsius magistri Johannis Gerson
Tractatus de oratione et eius valore
Dyalogus de perfectione cordis
Tractatus de sollicitudine ecclesiasticorum
Regulae morales
Tractatus de spirituali vita animae
De audienda confessione
Tractatus de injugenda poenitentia contra recidivum
Tractatus de precepta confessione et scientia mortia
Tractatulus secundus de confessione sacramentali
Opusculum per conquerenda noticia bene moriendi
[No title], inc.: Quaestio utrum hoc possit scire
[No title], inc.: Modus disponendi se ad mortem
Registrum hystoriarum evangeliorum de libro magistri nicolai organiste
Speculum mortis sanctae peccatoris beati augustini
Hiis sequentibus altaris communio est prohibenda
Brevilogium de malis huius mundi
Brevilogium de vana huius mundi oblectatione
Tractatus de incarnatione [Christi]
Declaratio et expositio arboris consanguinitatis
Tractatulus ... de confessione mollitiei
Responsio ... super quaestione sibi facta per vicarium domus carthusiae de statuto ordinis
De eodem statuto
Avisamentum per modum confessionis in religionibus in lapsis audiendi.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Collation: Paper, 156; 1² 2-3¹² 4¹²⁻²(-1, -2) 5-7¹² 8¹²⁻¹(-8) 9-14¹² 15¹; [1-26, 29-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, [1-314], with pastedowns paginated 1 and 314. References in this record are to modern foliation. Folios 27-28 are missing, and f. 82 is almost completely torn out. Quires 1-14 signed A, a-n in modern pencil, lower right first recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Quires 10 and 11 (f. 99-120, containing works 7-12 of the present manuscript) were originally a separate codicological unit. Some original folio numbers are extant and indicate that f. 99-120 were originally numbered 1-21. These quires may be slightly earlier in date than the rest of the manuscript. They were added to the rest of the volume when it was bound in the late 15th century.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by several hands, with some marginal notes in additional hands, including 17th-century notations (f. 159v).
Decoration: Extensive rubrication used for initials, capitals, headings, and underlining; Three consanguinity diagrams (f. 147r, 147v, 148v)
Watermarks: Similar to Piccard, vol. 2: 3, XIII. 587-588 (1463, Lienz, Donauwörth, Öhringen), on ff. 1-98, 123-146, 149-156. Similiar to Piccard, vol. 11: II. 471-524, on f. 99-122. Piccard, vol. 8, IV. 50 (Mainz, 1466), on f. 147-8, 157-159.
Binding: 15th-century German pigskin over boards, incised and stamped with metal clasps and etiquettes; including a "Maria" banner. Binding in generally good condition, though the leather is peeling and pulling away from the boards in places and from the upper spine. The lower clasp is missing. There are worm holes in the cover boards, particularly at the top and fore edges.
Origin: Written in southern Germany, possibly Memmingen, 1450-1475 (one work date 1466, f. 142v).
Folio 159 loose; completely detached from binding.
Many folios show evidence of mildew and mold damage. The following notation in pencil is found inside lower cover: "This MS fumigated to prevent further growth of mold Jan. 1950 after technique of Brit. Mus. W. Spawn." [Willman Spawn was a scholar and codicologist at the University of Pennsylvania.].
Front cover has writing and a label that are hard to read. Spine shows traces of similar labels.
The copies of works 7-12 (f. 99r-120v) may be slightly earlier than the rest of the volume. The copies of works 21-24 and the following notes (f. 157-159v) are slightly later, dating to the end of the 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly held at the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (Germany). Three ex libris notations: "Carthusien. in Buxia" (f. 1r); "Carthusianorum Patrum/ Hulae B. V. Mariae in Buxheim" (f. 2r); "Hunc liber dedit dominus Johannes Frank socius divinorum apud Sanctum/ Martinum in Memmingen fratribus ordinis carthusiensis in buchsheim/ oretur pro eo propter deum" (inside lower cover).
Formerly owned by Presb. F. Vallée (ex libris, inside upper cover); Ludwig Rosenthal (Catalogue 120 (1909), no. 127; description, inside upper cover). Also includes a description from an unidentified catalog (inside upper cover).
Purchased, 1949.

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. 179 (Ms. Lea 152).
Gerson, Jean. Oeuvres complètes [de] Jean Gerson. Palémon Glorieux, ed. Ten volumes. (Paris/New York: Desclée, [c1960-1973].
Gerson, Jean. Opera omnia. Louis Ellies Du Pin, ed. Three volumes. (The Hague, 1728). The five-volume version of this edition (Antwerp, 1706) has been reprinted (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1987).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 96.

OCLC:

155962344

Web link:

Collation model