Details

Subjects:

Jesus Christ.
John, the Baptist, Saint.
Christian saints in literature.
Devotional literature.
Italian literature -- 15th century.
Italian literature.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Miscellany containing five religious and devotional works.

Contents:

1. f.1r-85v: Meditatione d[e la vita] de [Christo] / composto per frate Iacomo.
2. f.87r: Splendore superdo [sic] domini summo favore [Religious poem of seven lines] ...
3. f.93r-98r: [Fragment of a visionary work].
4. f.100r-162v: Meditatione della vita de sanctu Jovanny Baptista.
5. f.164r-180v: La vita de sancto Honofrio confessore.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Inscription on inside front cover: Questo libro e de Santa Eucharistia de la gla gloria[?].
First work, heading: Qui comenza lo prolago de le [sic] meditatione de la vita de Christo composto per frate Iacomo de lo ordine di frati minuri traslatato de gramatica in latino. Incipit: Chiasche una persona de questo mondo ... (f. 1r). Parts of the heading are missing due to a loss of the upper outer corner of f. 1. In the heading [Christo] is written Xpo.
Second work, incipit: Splendore superdo [sic] diu summo fatore ... (f. 87r).
Third work is missing an unknown amount from the beginning.
Fourth work, heading: El prolago della meditatione della vita de sanctu Iovanny Baptista (f. 100r). Incipit of prologue (after heading): Ad laude de dio & della vloriosa vergene Maria ... (f. 100r). Incipit of text: Or incomenzamo la prima parte. dicono li sancti de luy che fo el piu singulare homo ... (f. 102r).
Fifth work, heading: Questa siene la vita de sancto Honofrio confessore (f. 164r). Incipit: Panuntiu humile servo della vostra santita a tucti li servi de dio ... (f. 164r).
First work copied by Johannes Benedicti Pauli de Nursia, who finished on 4 March 1457 (colophon, f. 85v: Expletus fuit liber iste per me Iohannem Benedicti Pauli de Nursia die quarta mensis martii 1457).
No indication of copyist or date for the other works, but they appear roughly contemporary.
The third, fragmentary work is written on a different sort of paper from the other portions of the manuscript.
Foliation: Paper, 180; 1-10, 12-91, [93-180]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various humanistic scripts by different hands.
Decoration: Red used in some portions for headings and initials.
Binding: Contemporary vellum with ties.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1457 (colophon, f. 85v).
Binding loose; cover badly deteriorated and torn. Cover pulling away from book block. Possibly some slight mildew damage in the binding. Various stains and smudges on the leaves. Back endleaf loose.
Descriptive notes from bookseller Jacques Rosenthal on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.

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. 98 (Ms. Italian 29).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 271

Contains:

[C]hiasche una persona de quisto mondo.
Splendore superdo [sic] domini summo fatore.
Meditatione della vita de s[an]c[t]o Jovan[n]y baptista.
Ad laude de dio & della gloriosa vergine Maria.
Or incomenzamo la prima parte. dicono li s[an]c[t]i de luy ch[e] fo el piu singulare homo.
Vita de s[an]c[t]o Honofrio [con]fess[ore].
Panuntiu humile servo della vostra santita a tucti li servi.

OCLC:

155964241