Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Dominicans.
Constitutions -- Specimens.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
History.
Constitutions.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Constitutions.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Specimens.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Constitutions of the Dominican sisters of the third order of the monastery of Santo Vincentio in Florence, called Annalena, which was founded in 1494.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 17 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁰, 2¹⁰(-3) [bound as 2²(+1), 3⁴]; 1-17; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The three single folios of what was originally quire 2 have been given tissue supports and sewn as a quire of one bifolium and one single folio. This was probably done at the time of the original sewing.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda script.
Decoration: Rubricated throughout; spaces for initials at the beginning of each chapter.
Binding: 15th-century Italian limp vellum.
Origin: Written in Florence at the monastery Annalena of Santo Vincentio, in the last quarter of the 15th century (rubric, f. 1r).
Except for some stains on the parchment, generally in very good condition.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Prince Petri Ginori Conti (bookplate, inside upper cover); sold by Olschki (Florence) at one point (inv. # 27860; sticker, inside upper cover).
Acquired, 1963.

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. 224 (Ms. Lea 386).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 104

OCLC:

155962413