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[Leggendario delle Sante Virgini].

Publication:
[Italy], [between 1350 and 1499]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
32 leaves : paper ; 223 x 175 (145 x 120) mm bound to 227 x 180 mm
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Other Title:
Laude de Santa Domitilla.
Una stella ea parita Vergine de gra[n]de honore.
De Sancta Eufrasina della sua nativita et come essendo maritata fuggi ad uno monasterio di monaci.
Fue nella cipta [sic] dalexandria uno ge[n]tile huomo & honorevole che temeva idio il quale avea nome panu[n]tio.
Di Santa Maria Vergine.
Uno huomo secolare & imanendo morta lamoglie.
La vita e legenda della Beata Eugenia.
Quomodo imperadore nel septimo anno del suo imperio mando filippo Illustrissimo huomo in Egipto.
Subjects:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Legends.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Saints.
Christian saints in literature.
Christian saints in literature -- Early works to 1800.
Saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.
Form/Genre:
Legends.
Hagiographies (works)
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Collection of hagiographic and devotional works concerning various female saints. These might come from the Vitae Patrum, a 14th-century collection of saints' lives and legends by unknown authors, translated into Italian by Domenico Cavalca (d. 1342). Contains the following works: Life of St. Domitilla (f. 1r-6v); Laude di Santa Domitilla (f. 6v-10v); Di Sancta Eufrasina, della sua nativita et come essendo maritata fuggi ad uno monasterio di monaci (f. 10v-21v); Di Santa Maria Vergine (f. 10v-24v); La vita e legenda della Beata Eugenia (f. 24v-30v).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from modern dealer's note (front flyleaf 1 verso).
The suggestion that these works might come from the Vitae Patrum is taken from a modern dealer's note (front flyleaf recto) and the notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library.
Fragmentary; the beginning of the first item and the end of the last are missing.
First work lacks title or incipit.
Second work. Heading: Laude di Santa Domitilla (f. 6v); incipit: Una stella ea parita Vergine di grande honore (f. 6v). This section consists of a collection of prayers and antiphons in honor of St. Domitilla.
Third work. Heading: Di Sancta Eufrasina della sua nativita et come essendo maritata fuggi ad uno monasterio di monaci (f. 10v); incipit: Fue nella cipta [sic] dalexandria uno ge[n]tile huomo & honorevole che temeva idio il quale avea nome panuntio (f. 10v-11r).
Fourth work. Heading: Di Santa Maria Vergine (f. 21v); incipit: Uno huomo secolare & imanendo morta lamoglie ... (f. 21v).
Fifth work. Heading: Comincia la vita e legenda della Beata Eugenia (f. 24v); incipit: Quomodo imperadore nel septimo anno del suo imperio mando filippo Illustrissimo huomo in Egipto ... (f. 24v).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 30 + i (modern paper); [1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 23 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a single minuscule hand of the late 14th or 15th century (Notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library).
Decoration: Red and blue used to highlight initials and section headings.
Binding: Modern paper boards. Slightly loose in places; spine of cover split at front hinge.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 14th or 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Various smudges and stains. Most leaves show some evidence of mildew damage. There is later arithmetic doodling in the bottom margin of f. 12r.
Penn Provenance:
Francis Campbell Macauley (bookplate, inside upper cover; Zacour-Hirsch).
Purchased, 1900 (Notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library).
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. 93 (Ms. Italian 3).
Publications about:
Manni, Domenico Maria, ed. [Vitae Patrum.] Volgarizzamento delle Vite de' santi padri. Firenze, D. M. Manni, 1731-35. The first two volumes of Manni's compilation contain Domenico Cavalca's Italian translation of the Vitae Patrum. (See modern dealer's note on recto of front flyleaf of the present manuscript; and the notes of Thomas R. Adams, on file in the Library.).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 242
Contributor:
Cavalca, Domenico, -1342, translator.
Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner.
OCLC:
155964079