Details

Subjects:

Jesus Christ -- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
Jesus Christ.
Devotional literature, Italian.
Trinity -- Early works to 1800.
Trinity.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Devotional treatises, one in 2 chapters on the Trinity, the other in 10 chapters on Jesus Christ, with references to the visions of either Mechthild of Magdeburg or Mechthild of Hackeborn.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 2r): Incomenza la pratica deli devoti overo devotioni de menare la mente ad Yesu Cristo secundo la visioni dela beata Mechtilde ...
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 40 + i (modern paper); [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 20-21 lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Extensive use of red for initials, headings, etc. A few initials decorated with faint blue, yellow, etc.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Most leaves badly stained, possibly from water.

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 91).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 335

OCLC:

155964413