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[Carmen paschale].

Author/Creator:
Sedulius, active 5th century.
Publication:
[Germany], [between 1450 and 1499]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
66 leaves : paper ; 141 x 104 (103 x 73) mm bound to 146 x 105 mm
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Standardized Title:
Paschale carmen
Subjects:
Jesus Christ -- Transfiguration -- Early works to 1800.
Socrates.
Jesus Christ.
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Carthusians.
Acrostics -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature.
Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800.
Monastic and religious life.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
Acrostics.
Transfiguration of Jesus Christ.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers and devotions.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Carmen paschale in four books, with a number of other poems, notes on the liturgy and verses in praise of monastic life.
Contents:
1. f.1r-47r: Carmen paschale.
2. f.47r-v: Contra superbos.
3. f.47v-48r: Contra avaros.
4. f.48r-v: Oratio quam dicitur edidisse Prudentius poeta.
5. f.49r-50r: [Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini, excerpt on the nature of sin / Saint Prosper of Aquitaine].
6. f.50r-v: On Socrates.
7. f.50v: Stelliferi conditor orbis [excerpt from De Consolatione philosophiae 1.5 / Boethius].
8. f.51r: Se totum invenit perfusum etiam pro verberibus quae [4 lines].
9. f.51v: Summa quies nil velle supia qui postulat usus.
10. f.59r-61r: Notes on the order of the liturgy.
11. f.62r: Prayer to Jesus Christ and Pro peccatis...
12. f.62v-63r: De sanctis specialiter privilegiatis.
13. f.64r: Acrostic poem about monastic life, Carthusian.
14. f.64v-65r: Poem/prayer.
15. f.65r: [Versus?] beati Thomae de Aquino de laude cellae.
16. f.66r-v: Historia de Transfiguratione domini salvatoris.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Item 6, on Socrates, is unidentified, incipit: Socrates sanctum ac venerabile consilium nobis (f. 50r).
Item 10 incipit: In summis missis festorum Nativitate Christi, Pasche, & Penthecostes, una sola oratio solemniter...
Item 13 incipit: Monachus ditur quasi solus et plangens seu dolens... (f. 64r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + i (near contemporary paper) + 66 + i (modern paper); [1-66]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a German gothic script (f. 1-47), with additional texts in 5 other hands.
Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, underlining, and paragraph marks throughout.
Binding: Modern boards, back cover detached.
Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Connecticut), 1957.
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 99).
Codicological description, identification and transcription of some texts by Paul Kallich (typescript, n.d.) is in the library's file and is the source for identification of texts in this cataloging record.
Cited as:
Sedulius, Carmen paschale (Ms. Codex 743). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
Contains:
Matthew, of Vendôme, approximately 1130-
Prudentius, 348-
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae.
OCLC:
212163959
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