Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Exorcism -- Early works to 1800.
Exorcism.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Prayers and devotions.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Latin

Summary:

Collection of Latin benedictions, prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary and for exorcisms. Examples of these include "Exorcismus super chartam, calamum, atramentum, sigillum, contra omnia maleficia probatissimus & expertissumus" (f. 3r), "Benedictio ultima super chartam et atramentum simul" (f. 17v), and "Post hunc exorcismum recitabis super chartam, calamum & atramentum sequentes psalmos" (f. 12r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, 28 leaves; 1-14, [15-28, 24-28 blank]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Block text with centered section headings.
Script: Written in two cursive hands (f. 1r-15v, 15v-24v).
Decoration: Small Teutonic crosses throughout text and margins. Large flourish on f. 3r, possibly signature.
Binding: Modern brown quarter morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Possibly written in Germany, ca. 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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. 178 (Ms. Lea 146).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1192

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

230949278