Details

Other Title:

Liber scintillarum

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Bible.
Confession -- Early works to 1800.
Confession.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800.
Parables -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Sermons, Latin.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology.
Vices -- Early works to 1800.
Vices.
Virtues -- Early works to 1800.
Virtues.
Parables.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 13th century.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Contents:

1. [Liber scintillarum], an alphabetical digest of quotations on morals, etc. from authors including Bernard of Clairvaux and St. Anselm (f. 1-24).
2. Sermones, two incomplete sermons (25r-30r; 30r-36v).
3. Poenitentiale [incomplete?] (f. 37r-52v).
4. Sermones, two incomplete sermons (de penthecoste) (f. 53r-58r).
5. Excerpts and glosses on the Bible (f. 59r).
6. De pugna spirituali (f. 59r-v).
7. De vitiis [de colloquio vitiorum / Galand of Reigny] (f. 59v-61r).
8. De confessione (f. 61v).
9. De contemptu mundi / Pope Innocent III, excerpts (f. 62r-70r).
10. Quindecim signa (f. 70v).
11. Two poems / Golias (f. 72v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 72; 1-3⁸, 4¹², 5-6⁸, 7-8⁶, 9⁸; [1-72]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns.
Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script by at least 5 different hands.
Decoration: Rubrication throughout.
Binding: Modern vellum over wooden boards.
Item 1 incipit: De Castitate et continentia (f. 1r) [first letters of alphabet are missing]. (This work, titled Liber Scintillarum in Zacour-Hirsch, is not the same text as that of Defensor.)
Item 2, second sermon incipit: Primum querite regnum dei et hec omnia adicientur vobis (f. 30r).
Item 3 incipit: In nomine Iesu Christi incipiunt interrogaciones que de scripturis sanctis et canonibus sacris in foro penitencie ad utilitatem confitencium fieri possunt et debent (f. 37r).
Item 4, second sermon incipit: Effundam spiritum meum super omnem carmen (f. 53r).
Item 6 incipit: Inter Ierusalem et Babyloniam nulla pax est sed guerra continua (f. 59r) (Migne 183, 761-765).
Item 7 incipit: Forte die quadam avarus libidini obvians (f. 59v).
Item 8 incipit: Ad habendum salutifere confessionis breviordinem (f. 61v).
Item 9 incipit: Domino patri[?] dei gratia portuensi episcopo Lotharius indignus diaconus gratiam in praesenti (f. 62r).
Item 10 incipit: Quindecim signa xv dierum ante diem iudicii invenit sanctus Ieronimus in annalibus Hebreorum (f. 70v) (Migne 217, 717-746).
Item 11 incipits: a. Tempus acceptabile, tempus est salutis (Walther 19171) and b. Sacerdotes mementote, nichil maius sacerdote (Walter 16999) (f. 72v).
Folios 1-58 are 14th century, folios 59-72 are 13th century, originally from at least two different manuscripts, from Germany (according to Zacour-Hirsch).
Some leaves stained, breaking at the edges.
Codicological and paleographical description by Paul Werner (typescript, 1977) on file at the library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.

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. 12-13 (Ms. Latin 55).

Publications about:

Item 7 "De Vitiis" analyzed by Richard Newhauser, "The Text of Galand of Reigny's 'De Colloquio Vitiorum' from his 'Parabolarium'," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1982), pp. 108-119. A copy is in the library's file.

Cited as:

Theological miscellany (Ms. Codex 696). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
Galand, de Reigny, active 12th century. Parabolarium.
Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216. De contemptu mundi.
De pugna spirituali.
Quindecim signa.
De confessione.
Tempus acceptabile, tempus est salutis.
Sacerdotes mementote, nichil maius sacerdote.

OCLC:

212077413