Details

Subjects:

Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules -- Early works to 1800.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules.
Music -- Early works to 1800.
Music theory -- Early works to 1800.
Music theory.
Sermons, Latin.
Music.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Contents:

1. f.1v-58r: Regula / Saint Benedict.
2. f.58v-60v: Musical intervals and scales.
3. f.63r-186r: De consolatione theologie / Johannes de Tambaco.
4. f.187r-191v: Sermo de vanitate / St. Augustine.
5. f.192r-196v: Excerpta ex orologio sapiencie / Henricus Suso.
6. f.197r-206r: De proprietate monachorum / Heinrich von Langenstein.
7. f.207r: Treatise on rondeaux, ballades, virelais, etc.
8. f.207v-216v: De musica [with diagrams]
9. f.217r-233v: Confessionale / Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl.
10. f.235r-261r: De diversis temptationibus / Johannes Gerson.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 263; [1-263], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by multiple hands.
Decoration: Decorated initials with penwork ornamentation throughout, most in red ink, some in red and ochre, with an especially elaborate example (f. 64v); musical diagrams in red, blue, and black ink (f. 215v, 216r).
Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with clasp intact; many wormholes in binding.
Origin: Written in Germany in 1437 (f. 58r) and subsequent years, in a variety of hands.
First folio is torn at the top; folio appears to have been torn out between f. 234 and f. 235 with no apparent loss of text.
Description by JoAnn Taricani (typescript, 1970s?) is in the library's file.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Buch- und Kunstantiquariat F. Dörling (Hamburg), 1955.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), pp. 8-9 (Ms. Latin 36).

Cited as:

Latin miscellany (Ms. Codex 614). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397.
Johannes, de Tambaco, 1288-1372.
Nicholas, of Dinkelsbühl, approximately 1360-1433.
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.

OCLC:

155966528