Details

Subjects:

Boethius, -524. Opuscula sacra -- Criticism and interpretation.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Poetry.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Ten commandments -- Sermons.
Ten commandments.
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
End of the world -- Early works to 1800.
Antichrist -- Early works to 1800.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.
Sermons, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Latin.
Antichrist.
End of the world.
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Poetry.

Language:

Latin, with short passages in German.

Summary:

A collection of two sermons of Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl, "De decem praeceptis decalogi," and "De dilectione dei et proximi, sermones 6-12," plus other theological, philosophical, and devotional texts, from identified and unidentified authors.

Contents:

1. f.1r-14v: Postilla in cantica canticorum.
2. f.15r-32v: Mirabile opusculum Sancti Vincencij ordinis predicatorum de fine mundi / [Vincent Ferrer]
3. f.33r-42v: Virgo salutatur [poem], with commentary Hic salutat angelus Mariam.
4. f.43r-106r: De decem praeceptis decalogi / [Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl]
5. f.106v-136r: De dilectione dei et proximi / [Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl]
6. f.136v-140r: Sermo ad clerum; incipit: Bonus pastor, Haec sunt verba Johannis X, originaliter sunt scripta in Evangelio.
7. f.140r-150r: [Catechismal text] In libello a domino Henrico Trachenaw (f. 140r); [and instructions to the reader] Perlege cum summa diligencia, lys und wider lys...wiltu lesen so schicke dir das buch (f. 143r).
8. f.152r-159v: Sicut fulgur / [Laurentius Puldericus, Breviarium decretorum J. Calderini]
9. f.165r-179r: [Commentary on Boethius, "De hebdomadibus"].
10. f.179v-200v: [De intellectu et intellegibili / Albertus Magnus].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 43r.
For the second work, "De fine mundi," there is a note at the end that the work is based on the edition "Impressus per Conradum Zenniger civem Nurmbergensem" [1481] (f. 32v).
For the fifth work, "De dilectione dei et proximi," there is a list of the sermons at the end (f. 136r). This manuscript is unusual in that, although it begins with Sermon 6 (Incipit: Circa hoc mandatum de quo praecedenter locuti sumus...) it apparently includes a sermon not found in the majority of copies, Sermon 12, De accidia.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 200 + i (modern paper); [1-42], 25-132, [151-200]; contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a variety of scripts ranging from bastarda to cursive by several hands; scribe who copied von Dinkelsbühl sermons (f. 43r-136r) is identified, (colophon, f. 136r): Per Mathiam p. de Pirnis scripta sunt precepte anno domini MCCCLIX [1459, Pirna in Saxony?].
Decoration: Some rubrics, capitals, initials, and underlining in red; many unfinished intiials. Marginal notes in different hands, some have been cut off in previous binding.
Binding: Modern binding in parchment leaf from a 15th-century manuscript breviary, with ties.
Origin: Written in Germany[?] between 1459 and 1499.
Final folio (f. 200) has been torn, with modern repair [text incomplete?].

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Illuminations (now Les Enluminures, Chicago), 1996.

Cited in:

Nicholas von Dinkelsbühl's De decem praeceptis decalogi includes his criticism of diabolic magic, discussed in Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, IV, New York, 1923, p.284 ff.
An edition of Nicholas von Dinkelsbühl's De dilectione dei et proximi (without reference to this text) is included in Thomas Peunter, Büchlein von der Liebhabung Gottes, ed. Bernhard Schnell, München, 1984.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 620

Contributor:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Contains:

Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419. De fine mundi.
Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century. De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vite.
Postilla in cantica canticorum.
Virgo salutatur.
Sermo ad clerum.

OCLC:

155968125