Details

Subjects:

Penance -- Early works to 1800.
Virtues -- Early works to 1800.
Virtues.
Penance.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Treatise on penitence as a virtue and penance as a sacrament.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1); later attribution to Bricci in ink (front flyleaf).
Pagination: Paper, i + 111 + i leaves; 1-14, [ii], 15-200, 181-200; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand with the exception of a few pages (p. 100-106) in a second hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Notes in pencil in the hand of Henry Charles Lea (f. i).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (signature, dated 1891, front flyleaf); an unidentified library stamp includes the words Rome and des Français (p. 1).
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. 183 (Ms. Lea 176).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 598

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155967197