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Other Title:

Tractatus de Requisitis ad susceptione[m] ordina[tionem?] maj[orem?].
Ordo est signaculum quoddam, per q[uo]d sp[iritua]lis[?] potestas tradi[tur] ordinato.
Litanie della Vergine M[ar]ia, composte in ottava Rima.
Vergine eccelsa, che di stelle ardenti / Coronata nel'Ciel' trionfi[?], e siedi.

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy) -- Early works to 1800.
Council of Trent.
Ordination -- Catholic Church.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Litanies (prayers)
Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

First and last items in Italian; second item in Latin.

Summary:

Canons of the Council of Trent, from the first session in 1545 down through the 14th session in 1563 (p. 1-123, f. 123-149v). The text appears to be incomplete, breaking off in mid-sentence at the bottom of f. 149v. Also includes a tract on ordination (f. 179r-197r); and a Litany of the Virgin in ottava rima (f. 197v-202v; continued on f. 173v-174r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Spine label of modern slipcase: Concilio di Trento.
Second work: title and incipit (f. 179r): Tractatus de Requisitis ad susceptione[m] ordina[tionem?] maj[orem?]. Ordo est signaculum quoddam, per q[uo]d sp[iritua]lis[?] potestas tradi[tur?] ordinato ...
Third work: title and incipit (f. 197v): Litanie della Vergine M[ar]ia, composte in ottava Rima. Vergine eccelsa, che di stelle ardenti / Coronata nel'Ciel' trionfi[?], e siedi, / ...
Pagination and foliation: Paper, 142; p. 1-90, 90-123, f. 123-150, 152-169, 172-202, contemporary pagination and foliation in ink, upper outer corner of paginated section, upper right recto of foliated section; 1-90, [91-278], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands. One of the owners, Antonius Albani, indicates at one point that he has emended the text (f. 197r).
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Cover badly stained, worn and split, especially at edges and wrap-around flap. Paper board underlying vellum badly torn in wrap-around flap. Text comes right up to edges, especially outer edge of rectos, possibly due to trimming; some slight amount of text might have been lost. Various smudges and stains; the top edge of the leaves is stained through most of the manuscript. Some damage due to oxidation of ink. Folio 202 torn.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Inscription: purchased by A.... [obliterated], Rome, 1 February 1752 (p. 1); soon after owned by Antonius Albani (inscription, p. 1).
Accessioned, 1959.

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. 103 (Ms. Italian 54).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 295

Contributor:

Albani, Antonius.

OCLC:

155964291