Details

Subjects:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Excerpts.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers and devotions.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Miscellany probably used by a Carthusian[?] preacher. Comprised of the following tracts interspersed with prayers, a mass, and other liturgical matter, with blank leaves in between sections.

Contents:

1. f.1r: Dixit Beatus Anthonius[?].
2. f.1v: Tract, incipit: Domine Jhesu Christe fili Dei vivi, creator.
3. f.9r-34r: Compendium [from explicit], incipit: Primo semper Deus.
4. f.42r-45v: Kyrieleyson, incipit: Pater de celis Deus.
5. f.79r-80v: De passione Domini, incipit: Deus qui pro redemptione.
6. f.97r-101r: Speculum humilitatis, incipit: Coactionis sed nolentis.
7. f.109r-115r: Excerpta de libro Sancti Augustini de spiritu et anima.
8. f.115r-120v: Excerpta de libris Sancti Gregorii de triplici voce.
9. f.121r-131r: Mistica theologica, incipit: Extensio amoris[?] in Deum.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 132; [1-132]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 6v-8v, 35r-40v, 52r-56r, 82r-82v, 86r-87r, 88v, 90v-92v, 93v-96r, 101v-108v, and 132r-132v are blank.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.
Decoration: Some sections with rubrication (for example, f. 75r, 76r, 89r).
Binding: Contemporary sheepskin, with clasp intact (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Austria[?] (Zacour-Hirsch) or northern Italy[?] in the 15th century.
A leaf in a later hand with "Adorationes" is laid in between f. 64 and f. 65.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim (f. 9r), ms.V.88.h (f. 132v).
Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.

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), Supplement A (1) Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 9 (Ms. Latin 217).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 715

Contributor:

Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

Contains:

De spiritu et anima.

OCLC:

155985477