Details

Other Title:

De continentia sacerdotum.

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Deadly sins -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A brief work on the seven deadly sins bound in after the printed text De continentia sacerdotum (Nuremberg: Weissenberger, 1510).

Contents:

Incipit (f. 1r): Est sciendum quod ista sunt septem peccata mortalia ...

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 10; 1¹⁰; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Red underlining and slashes in capitals (f. 7v-10r). The title page of the printed work is decorated with a woodcut of the Virgin Mary and St. Anne with the Christ Child.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch), ca. 1500.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Maggs Bros. (London), 1962.

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. 44 (Ms. Latin 187).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 915.

OCLC:

155930797

Access Restriction:

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