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Other Title:

Albertani Causidici Brixiensis de amore et dilectione dei et proximi, ac de forma vitae libri IV, de consolatione et consilio liber singularis

Subjects:

Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Christian life.
Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Christian ethics.
Consolation -- Early works to 1800.
Consolation.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Illuminations.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of works (with preceding table of contents) by Albertano da Brescia on civic peace, the community, and the role of the individual; also includes a letter by Bernard of Clairvaux, and a copy of the apocryphal letter of P. Lentulus to the Roman senate describing the physical appearance of Jesus Christ; manuscript has been completed in two parts (first part, f. i-ii, 1-48; sectiond part, f. 49-86, i-ii) which have been bound together.

Contents:

1. f.1r-49v: Liber de amore et dilectione dei / Albertano da Brescia.
2. f.50r-77r: Liber consolationis et consilii / Albertano da Brescia.
3. f.77v-85r: Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi / Albertano da Brescia.
4. f.85r-86r: Epistola / Bernard of Clairvaux.
5. f.86v: Epistola ad senatum romanum / Publius Lentulus.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from table of contents (f. iii recto); 17th-century title page lists titles of other works by Albertano (f. ii recto).
Collation: Parchment, ii (17th-century paper) + 90 + ii (17th-century paper); 1² 2-7⁸ 8-11¹⁰; [ii], 1-86, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords in pen-flourished boxes on the lower center of the last verso of quires 2-7; quires 8-11 have catchwords on the lower center verso of the last verso of each quire. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 35 long lines; ruled in lead and drypoint; prickings visible; rulings in the second part (f. 49r to end) done with a rake.
Script: Written in an Italian Gothic book hand by two scribes in red and brown ink.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Oiseau 12250 (1592) and 12251 (1590).
Decoration: Illuminated 3-line initial "Q" with flowers, gold, and blue, red, green, pink, and yellow ink (f. 50r), pen-flourished 2-line initials in red and blue (f. 49r-84r).
Binding: 17th-century vellum with gilt title Opere spiri. temp.
Origin: Written in Italy (perhaps Veneto) in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Michel Chasles (bookplate, inside upper cover: "Ex bibliotheca Michaelis Chasles Acad. Scientiar. Socii." with engraver's signature L. Benard).
Sold by Herbert Reichner (New York), 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 14 (Ms. Latin 231).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 925

Contributor:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Chasles, M. (Michel), 1793-1880, former owner.

Contains:

Pseudo-Lentulus.
Liber consolationis et consilii.
Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi.

OCLC:

183632703

Web link:

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