Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Indulgences -- Early works to 1800.
Indulgences.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Treatises consisting of disputations on indulgences and censures (including excommunication and interdiction).

Contents:

1. f.iii recto-v verso: Index.
2. f.1r-48r: Tractatus de indulgentiis.
3. f.51r-193r: Tractatus de censuris.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine (Lod[ovicus] Letus Soc. Jesu De indulgentiis & censuris); VI. and 28 also on spine. Bookseller's description pasted on f. i recto gives the date 1643.
Foliation: Paper, 351; [xii], 1-195, 195-210, 210-254, [257 (numbered 246), 258-340]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
There are three contemporary loose notes: one between f. 146-147 with nearly no text on it except for a portion of a letter; a second one between f. 152-153 that appears to be a medical prescription; and a third one with figures on it between f. 235-236.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry C. Lea, 1890 (signature, f. i recto).
Bequest of Henry Charles Lea, 1909.

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. 176 (Ms. Lea 140).
Cf. A. de Backer and C. Sommervogel, Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jesus, Brussels, 1893, IV, col. 1754

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 584

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

155966905