Details

Subjects:

Franciscans -- Theology.
Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Catholic Church.
Franciscans.
Angels.
Theology.
Mysticism -- Catholic Church.
Sermons, Italian.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.
Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800.
Monastic and religious life.
Angels -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Sermons.
Codices.
Anthologies.
Treatises.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian, with occasional phrases in Latin.

Summary:

Collection of 7 religious, predominantly Franciscan, works. 3 are by Saint Bonaventure and one is a story about Saint Bonaventure teaching about the holy life. Other contents include works attributed to Catherine of Bologna and Isaac the Syrian, a 6th-century abbot of Spoleto, along with a group of sermons. The first two items are printed, and were published together by Albertino da Lisona Vercelese in Venice in 1502.

Contents:

1. f.1r-29v: Dialogo [Italian translation of Soliloquium] / composto per Sancto Bonaventura, cardinal del ordine di Fratri Minori.
2. f.30r-41v: Itinerario in semedemo [Italian translation of Itinerarium mentis in Deum]/ del eximio doctore Sancto Bonaventura cardinale.
3. f.42r-98v: Uno libreto [Sette armi spirituali] / composto da una beata religiosa del corpo de Christo Sora Caterina da Bologna [1.1-10.22, lacking closing (10.23)]
4. f.99r-136r: Libro dell'abate Ysaac di Siria come si deposare in dio et contempto del mundo [incomplete?]
5. f.136v-200r: [Sermons]
6. f.200v-201v: [Precepts of Saint Bonaventure]
7. f.202r-208r: Tractatus Sancto Bonaventure de sex alis seraphin [incomplete?]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Spine title: S. Bonaven. Dial. Itin.
Foliation: Parchment and paper, i (17th-century[?] paper) + 208 + i (17th-century[?] paper); [1-208]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 157-167 are parchment; the rest are paper.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, mostly by one hand (except the section of the sermons on parchment, f. 157-167, and the story about the precepts of Saint Bonaventure, f. 200v-201v).
Binding: 17th-century pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch). Spine stamped, with some gilding. Cover flaking around edges and spine. Cracking on spine and at hinges.
Origin: Manuscripts written in Italy in the late 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Some of the leaves are becoming brittle. On a number of leaves, oxidation of the ink has damaged the paper and rendered the text very difficult to read. On some leaves this deterioration has eaten through the paper. Some leaves show evidence of attempts to repair the damage.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Francis Campbell Macauley (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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. 92 (Ms. Italian 2).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 241

Contributor:

Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner.

Contains:

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Soliloquium. Italian.
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Itinerarium mentis in Deum. Italian
Catherine, of Bologna, Saint, 1413-1463. Sette armi spirituali.
Isaac, of Syria, 7th century.
Dialogo.

OCLC:

155964062