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Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... [etc.].

Author/Creator:
Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century.
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1350 and 1399]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
70 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm bound to 270 x 204 mm
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Subjects:
Consolation -- Early works to 1800.
Consolation.
Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Christian life.
Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Christian ethics.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Illuminations.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Collection of works by Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis with dates of their composition in the explicit or incipit of each, plus a poem by Petrus Damianus on the final folio.
Contents:
1. f.2r-7r: Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi [1255].
2. f.7r-24v: Liber consolationis et consilii [1246].
3. f.24v-58r: Liber de amore et dilectione dei [1238].
4. f.58r-70r: Five sermons [the first dated 6 December 1263, f. 56r].
5. f.70r-v: De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum / [Peter Damian].
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title of predominant work; titles for individual works taken from 15th-century index (f. 1), which also includes a list of headings for the first three works of Albertano.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 70 + ii (modern paper); [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand.
Decoration: Historiated initial depicting a knight with shield, in green, pink, purple, red, yellow and gold, with a botanical border, probably 15th-century and German, painted over earlier illumination (f. 2r). Rubricated, with capitals in red and blue, decorated 2-line and 4-line initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork ornamentation and decorated borders at the left edge of most columns throughout the text.
Binding: 19th-century stamped calf, front hinge split.
Sermons begin on f. 58r, 60v, 63r, 65v, and 68v.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r).
Attribution to Peter Damian from Zacour-Hirsch, taken from bookseller's description, with the title Rhythmos ad diversos mundi status; this work often appears in collections of Albertano da Brescia and is sometimes attributed to him as well.
Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.
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. 10 (Ms. Latin 107).
For second work, the source of the Tale of Melibeus, see E. P. Goldschmidt, Medieval Texts (London, 1943), pp. 7-9.
Publications about:
De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vite : an edition, by Sharon L. Hiltz, Ph. D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 744.
Contributor:
Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072.
Contains:
De arte dicendi et tacendi.
De consolatione et consilio.
De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vite.
OCLC:
155985523
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