De vita christiana.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
12 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (167 x 105) mm bound to 218 x 153 mm - Production:
- [Germany], 1467.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33545 - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Spurious and doubtful works.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Spiritual life -- Christianity. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Spurious and doubtful works. - Summary:
- Copy of De vita christiana.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from f. 2v: Incipit liber Sancti augustini de vita christiana.
Date from f. 11v: Explicit liber sancti augustini de vita christiana, anno lxvii.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36-38 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script possibly in the hand of Frater Rudolphus Rasser Donatus (inscription, f. 2v-3r).
Decoration: Some use of red for initials and capitals.
Binding: Modern half-vellum.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1467 (f. 11v). - Penn Provenance:
- Possible ownership inscription of Frater Rudolphus Rasser Donatus (f. 2v-3r).
Formerly held at the Carthusian monastery in Brixen (f. 2r).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 14 Apr. 1930, lot 112.
Sold by Symmachus, 1953. - 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. 10 (Ms. Latin 41).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 692
- Contributor:
- Donatus, Rudolphus Rasser, former owner.
- OCLC:
- 155985413