Details

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Legends.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Christian saints in literature.
Devotional literature.
Italian literature -- 15th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 15th century.
Italian poetry.
Religious poetry, Italian -- To 1500.
Religious poetry, Italian.

Form/Genre:

Legends.
Codices.
Hagiographies (works)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Miscellany containing works on the Virgin Mary and her parents, Joachim and Anna; the Passion; the Resurrection; and Saint Thedosina. Also a poem in terze rima on the lamentation of the Virgin Mary and selections from Thomas Aquinas.

Contents:

1. f.1r-v; 2r-24r: La vita de Joachim del tribu di Juda ...
2. f.24r-44r: La passion del nostro Signor Giesu Christo.
3. f.44r-54v: Lo libro dela resurrectione del nostro Signor.
4. f.54v-65r: Li miracoli de la vergene Maria.
5. f.65r-76r: El pianto de la vergene Maria per la morte del suo dolce fiolo / Frater Anselmo [Enselmino da Montebelluna]
6. f.76r-81v: A laude e gloria sia de lo omnipotente dio e de la glorioxa vergine Maria e de madonna s[anc]ta Theodoxina laquale fo madre del dilecto apostolo di Jesu Christo misier [sic] san Bortolamio [sic]
7. f.84r-94r: Sancto Tomaxo daquino venerabille doctor si mete una questione ... / [Thomas of Aquinas]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Traces of a near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead and ink.
Script: Written in a formal book script (f. 1r-1v) by one hand that breaks off abruptly, with the text beginning again in a later semi-cursive humanistic script by a second hand. Works 2-6 begin with a few words in a larger, Gothic script. The sixth work has many corrections in another hand.
Decoration: 5-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 2r, 65r), 2-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 84), rubrics in red, with alternating red and blue initials, and capitals and Gothic incipits touched with yellow; manicule (f. 63r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards; five brass bosses on each cover (one missing, upper cover, lower left corner); two clasps and catches, engraved and stamped IHS. Spine splitting. A few wormholes. Various stains and smudges.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, based on orthography and early provenance in Verona (f. 94v), in 1464 (f.1r) and mostly in 1473 or later (f. 2r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Monastero di Santo Spirito of Verona (inscription, f. 94v).
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 542 (1930), no. 180a, and catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 239.
Sold by Laurence Witten, 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. 94-95 (Ms. Italian 13).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 255

Contributor:

Monastero di Santo Spirito (Verona, Italy), former owner.

Contains:

Enselmino, da Montebelluna, active 13th century-14th century.
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Miracoli de la verzene Maria.
Pianto de la verzene Maria.

OCLC:

155964182