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Other Title:

Corona Domini.
Incommensa la regula overo ordine sopra la corona del signore.
La corona del signore.
La corona de la beata Vergine Maria.
Corona Beatae Mariae Verginis.
Incommensa la corona dominicale dela madonna.
La corona dominicale dela madonne.
Expositione de lo patre nostro.
Pater:Noster: Carissimi sogliano.
Carissimi sogliano.

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Lord's prayer -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Lord's prayer.
Devotional literature, Italian.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Manuscript containing three short devotional works.

Contents:

1. f.2r-17r: Corona Domini (incipit: Incommensa la regula overo ordine sopra la corona del signore ... ).
2. f.17r-34v: La corona de la beata Vergine Maria (incipit: Incommensa la corona dominicale dela madonna ... ).
3. f.37r-42v: Expositione de lo patre nostro (incipit: Pater:Noster: Carissimi sogliano ... ).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Titles and incipits from headings in text. The incipits of the first and second works suggest that "La corona del signore" and "La corona dominicale dela madonna" are alternate titles for these works.
Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue gives second work the title: Corona Beatae Mariae Verginis.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 44 + i (modern paper); [1-44]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. Also includes assorted marginalia, at least some of which appear to be in a different hand.
Decoration: Rubricated headings and paragraph markers.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Most leaves badly stained, possibly due to water.
Bookseller's description (Jacques Rosenthal) in German on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 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. 111 (Ms. Italian 90).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 334

OCLC:

155964411