Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Deadly sins -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature, Italian.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.
Theology, Doctrinal.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Treatise on the seven deadly sins. Also includes a treatise on the nine laws of the Church, between the sections on superbia and invidia. After the last of the sections on the seven sins (luxuria) there is a treatise on I boti [i.e., voti]. The beginning of the manuscript, possibly an entire quire, is missing.

Contents:

1. f.2r-11v: Superbia [incomplete; beginning missing].
2. f.11v-19v: La prima [-nona] leggie della chiesa ...
3. f.19v-24v: Invidia. 4. f.24v-29r: Ira.
5. f.29r-33v: Accidia.
6. f.33v-44r: Avaritia.
7. f.44r-47v: Gola.
8. f.47v-58v: Luxuria (Expl.: Mapuo bene inalcuno caso temperare lorigore della giustitia anon punire il peccatore come a meritato).
9. f.58v-61v: [I boti] (Inc. and expl.: Circha i boti nota che boto secondo sancto Thomaso, e una promess fatta ... della religione mano dopo tale eto detta. Deo Gratias amen.).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Each of the sections on the sins begins as follows: El secondo [terço, etc.] bitio [i.e., vitio] chapitale si chiama invidia [ira, etc.].
The sections (Invidia, etc.) are indicated by headings in the upper right recto.
The last treatise (I boti) begins immediately after the section on Luxuria, without paragraphing to mark the transition.
Colophon (f. 61v): "Scritto per me Brunetto Daldobrandino et finito questo di XXIIIIo daprile MCCCCLV. a riverencia et honore diddio, et per sua gratia amen." It is possible that Brunetto D'Aldobrandino is the author of the text as well as the scribe.
Owner's note (f. 1r): "Di Bartolomeo di Larione Martelli" (could possibly be an indication of authorship as well as ownership).
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 61 + i (modern paper); [i], 6¹⁰; [1-61]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. The entire first quire, probably a¹⁰, appears to be missing. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script in the hand of Brunetto D'Aldobrandino (colophon, f. 61v).
Decoration: Initials in blue.
Binding: Modern full leather.
Origin: Possibly written in Tuscany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1455 (colophon, f. 61v).
Cover scratched and worn, particularly at edges and spine. Some leaves stained. A few wormholes and other damage.
Bookdealer's description (Bernard Rosenthal) on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bartolomeo di Larione Martelli (signature, f. 1r).
Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 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. 108 (Ms. Italian 76).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 318

Contributor:

Aldobrandino, Brunetto d', scribe.
Martelli, Bartolomeo di Larione, former owner.

OCLC:

155964340

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