Details

Subjects:

Cardinal virtues -- Early works to 1800.
Latin poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Latin literature -- Early works to 1800.
Latin literature.
Latin poetry.
Cardinal virtues.
Cambrai (France) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Indexes (reference sources)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with some words and phrases in Dutch in the phrase lists at the end of the volume (f. 81r-90v).

Summary:

Collection of scholarly and devotional materials, some copied from 17th-century publications. The Latin works in the front of the volume include indexes of Virgilian topoi and letters of Cicero; a devotional poem on the suffering of Christ and other unidentified poems; and selections from Jesuit-authored works published in Antwerp, such as a verse account of the lifting of a siege of Cambrai (Cameracum), a work on the cardinal virtues heavily based on classical authors, and part of an elegy by Guilielmus Becanus (Willem van der Beke). Starting from the back is a list in two columns of phrases in Latin and Dutch, in some entries pairing Latin synonyms and in others giving Dutch equivalents for Latin (f. 90v-81r).

Contents:

1. f.1r-2v: Loci communes affectuum ex Virgilio
2. f.7r: [Latin notes]
3. f.10r-14r: Index epistolarum M.T. Ciceronis ad certum ordinem redactarum
4. f.15r-16v: De Christo patiente
5. f.18r-25v: Cameracum obsidione liberatum a serenissimo Archiduce Leopoldo Guilermo / Othonis Zylii e Societate Jesu
6. f.26r-30r: [Selections from Virtutes cardinales ethico emblemate expressae / Jacobus Caterus, S.J.]
7. f.30r-32v: Ad testam cineribus plenam in rerum humanarum vanitatem expendit
8. f.32v: Mortale est quodcumque vides ... [Selection from Elegia VII / Guilielmi Becani]
9. f.33r-35r: Quam iuvat arcanas rerum cognoscere causas verbaque ...
10. f.81r-90v: [Latin and Dutch equivalents and associated phrases]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 92; [i, 1-91 (36-80 blank)], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary (17th-century?) parchment over cardboard; remnants of two pairs of leather ties.
Origin: Written, possibly in the Netherlands, after 1650 (first edition of Cameracum obsidione liberatum).

Penn Provenance:

Ownership inscription: Franciscus [?] convictor (second half 17th century, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1650

Contributor:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Contains:

Zyll, Otto van, 1588-1656. Cameracum obsidione liberatum.
Cater, Jacques de, 1593-1657. Virtutes cardinales ethico emblemate expressae.
Beke, Willem van der, 1608-1683. Idyllia et elegiae.

OCLC:

898746506