Manuscript leaf from Diaeta salutis, 1300s

Contributor:

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 (attributed name)

Name:

Guillaume, de Lanicia, -after 1310

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

Small leaf from the Diaeta salutis, Titulus secundus (De poenitentia et eius partibus), Capitula VII (De eleemosyna), commonly attributed to Saint Bonaventure. Probably written in Italy in 34-35 long lines in a small Gothic hand with rubrication of paragraphs and much abbreviation. One edge trimmed with loss of text; at the other edge pricking is visible. On the verso, "Bertramus" is written in pencil in one margin; at the top, a later hand has written in ink an aphorism from Juvenal's sixth satire, "Intolerabilius nihil est quam femina dives" (Nothing is more intolerable than a rich woman).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by William Salloch (Ossining, N.Y.), 1979.

Subject:

Christian life -- Early works to 1800; Christian life; Spiritual life -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800; Spiritual life -- Catholic Church; Repentance -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800; Repentance -- Catholic Church

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment; 149 x 100 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 8

Collection:

Manuscript Fragment Collection