Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Merit (Christianity) -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- Study and teaching.
Merit (Christianity).
Spain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts (documents) -- Spain -- Seventeenth century (dates CE).
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Six disputations on the theological concept of merit, with numerous references to Spanish Jesuit theologians, written from dictation in a university setting.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from caption heading (p. 1).
"Auditore Maximiliano Koller, Rel[igiosus] Soc[ietatis] Ies[u]," p. 1; Koller was probably one of the volume's scribes.
Pagination: Paper, 88 leaves; [ii], 1-172, [ii], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Watermarks: Varied watermarks include a bull and a rider with a spear on a horse.
Binding: Contemporary parchment with remains of two pairs of leather ties.
Origin: Possibly written in Spain, not before 1644. A reference to Pope Innocent X (1644-1655) sets the earliest possible date for the codex (p. 149).
The Spanish phrase "No es blanco" is written on p. 122, 123, and 127.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by the Philadelphia Rare Book & Manuscript Co., 2001.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 851

Contributor:

Koller, Maximilianus, scribe.
Jesuits.

OCLC:

155918851