Details

Other Title:

Due historie christiane, curiose, e verediche cavate da molit antiche scrittori, di nuovo riformate, e ristampate.

Subjects:

Christian saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.
Christian saints -- Legends.
Devotional literature, Italian.
Hagiography.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Hagiographies (works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Legends.

Language:

Italian, apparently translated from a German printed edition.

Summary:

Account of the legend of St. Beatus by St. Peter Canisius. Despite the title, this manuscript consists only of the life of St. Beatus; the life of St. Fridolinus is not included.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from label on upper cover.
Title from title page (f. 1r): Due historie christiane, curiose, e verediche cavate da molti antiche scrittori, di nuovo riformate, e ristampate. La prima dell' Apostolo S. Beato, primo predicatore ne' Svizzeri, la 2a. del famoso Abbate S. Fridolino primo predicatore di Clarona Cantone de Suizzer[i]. Composte per il Padre Pietro Canisio Theologo della Comp[agni]a di Gesù, superioru[m] permissu, anno 1590. Nella stampa di Friburgo in Vehtlandia d' Abraamo Gemperlin.
Note in later hand at bottom of title page (f. 1r): Sono ambedue dette Vite stampate come sopra in lingua Tedesca; e la prima d'esse è qui tradotta in Italiano.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 68 + i (modern paper); [1-68]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script by several hands. Also includes various marginal and interlinear corrections and notes in various hands.
Binding: Modern paper boards. The leaves are not all of the same size. Some have been folded slightly to fit the dimensions of the cover; others are slightly smaller. Cover worn, particularly at hinges. Various stains and smudges. Some oxidation of ink. Edges of some leaves slightly torn and frayed. On most pages the text fills the space between the gutter and the edge, leaving no side margins. Many pages also lack topic and bottom margins.
Origin: Written in Italy in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Modern dealer's description in German pasted inside upper cover.
Backer-Sommervogel (II, 679) lists this ms. as the only Italian translation of the legend of St. Beatus (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly part of the Morbio collection (seller's description, inside upper cover).
Accessioned, 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. 110 (Ms. Italian 82).
Backer, Augustin de. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouv. éd. par Carlos Sommervogel. Bruxelles: O. Schepens; Paris: A. Picard, 1890-1932 [Louvain: Editions de la Bibliothèque S. J., Collège Philosophique et Théologique, 1960], II, 679.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 325

Contributor:

Morbio, Carlo, former owner.

OCLC:

155964382