Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Liturgics.
Hagiography.
Christian saints in literature.
Christian saints in literature -- Early works to 1800.
Hagiography -- Early works to 1800.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church.
Spirituality -- Catholic Church.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Anthologies.
Hagiographies (works)
Lectionaries.
Prayers.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian; possibly in the Florentine vernacular.

Summary:

Consists of miscellaneous theological, devotional and liturgical works including the Leggende (i.e. Vita e Miracoli) di S. Domitilla Vergine, which generally is the last portion of the Vita Nerei et Achillei (f. 1r-49r); 79 four-line stanzas that deal mostly with rules for proper behavior in daily, mostly secular, life (f. 51v-56v); the Lives and miracles of SS. Ursula and Elizabeth (f. 76v-95r); over forty sequences, readings, etc. used in the liturgy throughout the year (incomplete; f. 130r-228v); and various other short prayers and other works.

Contents:

1. f.1r-49r: [Leggende di S. Domitilla] (incipit: Volendo dare alchuna chosa e laude e chastitade della verginitade togliamo por a sempro la groria [sic] vergine Domitilla).
2. f.50r-51r: [Dodici arthocholi della fede; followed by the seven works of mercy, the seven sacraments and short prayers].
3. f.51v-56v: [Il savio romano; 79 four-line stanzas] (incipit: Al nome di dio et di buono inchominciate / Tutte le chose che l'uomo viene affare / ... ).
4. f.57r-76v: [On confession] (incipit: Omanda la santa chiesa acia scheduno christiano maschio e femina ... ).
5. f.76v-84r: [Leggenda di santa Orsina (i.e., Ursula)].
6. f.84r-95r: [I fioretti tracti della storia della beatissima Lisabetta].
7. f.95r-v: [Four short prayers].
8. f.95v-98v: [St. Bernardus. Orazio ad Jhesum Christum; and other short items].
9. f.98v-99r: [Pope John XXII. Orazione].
10. f.99v-103v: [Leggenda di Christofano Christophorus] (title cropped and unreadable).
11. f.103v-105v: [Short poem; De santo Jacopo; short poem].
12. f.107r-129r: [Percitio dell'anima].
13. f.130r-228v: [Sequences and lectiones] (incipit: Incominciano l'epistole e letioni et i santi vangelii i quali si leghone in tuto l'anno nelle sancte masse ... [numbers 1-43, unfinished by scribe]).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Much of the descriptive information and titles of individual items taken from Zacour-Hirsch.
Inscription (f. 129v): Armauirum que cano Troye qui primus aboris. This is the first line of Vergil's Aeneid.
Collation: Paper, ii + 235; 1-9⁸, 10¹⁰, 11-14⁸, 15⁸(-1), 16⁸, 17-19¹⁶, 20-22¹⁶, 23¹²(-2); [ii, 1-235]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in several different cursive scripts.
Decoration: Black initials with red ornamentation (f. 1r, 1v, 3r, 4r, 4v).
Binding: Early 16th-century full calf on wooden boards; clasps missing.
Origin: Written in Tuscany[?] in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Cover worn, especially at edges and hinges. Possible evidence of slight worm damage on inside covers. First (blank, unnumbered) quire loose. Various smudges and stains. Edges of some leaves fraying and tearing. Evidence of repairs to some leaves.
Small scrap of paper with assorted writing laid in between f. 234-235.
Dealer's description (Bernard Rosenthal) on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard Rosenthal, 1959.

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. 108 (Ms. Italian 75).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 317

Contains:

John XXII, Pope, -1334.

OCLC:

155964363

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