Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church.
Baptism -- Catholic Church.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Unpublished work in four parts; topics include the nature of faith, the Trinity, God, Adam, Eve, demons, angels, baptism, and the Eucharist; with a register of questions (contents) with page numbers, on preliminary folios [iii-vi].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Lectura de summa trinitate. Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur fidem (f. 1r).
Explicit litteratura capitali firmiter de summa trinitate et fide Catholica completa in studio Bononiensi et per Coradum de Solto sacrae theologiae doctorem atque professorem. Anno domini millesimo trezentesimo octoagesimo octavo decima nona die Aprilis (f. 103r).
Foliation: Paper, 112; [vi], 1-68, [i], 69-77, [i], 78-103, [i]; contemporary or near contemporary foliation in ink, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 39 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a cursive humanistic script by 2 hands.
Decoration: Rubricated with headings in red and blue.
Binding: 19th-century calf over old wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch); back board is split, weakened by worm damage.
Origin: Written in Bologna, Italy, dated April 19, 1388 (f. 103r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the library of the Dominican convent of St. Augustine at Padua.
Sold at auction at Hoepli, 3 Dec. 1929 (catalog, p. 33) to E. P. Goldschmidt; appears in Goldschmidt's catalog 23 (1930), no. 101.
Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt, 1950.

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. 3 (Ms. Latin 10).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 720.

OCLC:

155985487

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