De spiritu et anima ... [etc.]

Contributor:

Gaspar (scribe)

Name:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430; Alcher, de Clairvaux, active 12th century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Middle Ages, 600-1500

Date:

1463

Description:

Text of treatise De spiritu et anima (f. 1r-56v), erroneously attributed to St. Augustine. This appears to be identical to the treatise De anima et spiritu by an Alcherus of Clairvaux. Also includes an unidentified theological text, erroneously identified in the manuscript as St. Augustine's Soliloquia (f. 56v). There is a table of contents for this work on f. 56v-57v.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Luigi Celotti at auction at Sotheby's to Henry Drury, 26 Feb. 1821, lot 37.; Sold by Drury at auction at R. H. Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, lot 270.; Sold by William Allen, 1955.; Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/144

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History; Catholic Church; History; Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Catholic Church -- Theology -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Soul -- Early works to 1800; Soul; Spirit -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- Study and teaching -- Catholic Church; Spirit; Theology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Illuminations; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

146 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 163 x 110 (107 x 61) mm bound to 174 x 116 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title and attribution to St. Augustine (Divus Augustus) taken from inside front flyleaf and from spine.; Incipit (1st work): Quoniam dictum est mihi ut me ipsum cognoscam sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum ... (f. 1r).; Explicit (1st work): ... aliud non sit quae ratio. (f. 56v). This explicit is characteristic of Norpoth's "Type I" of the text (Norpoth, p. 7). Contains chapters 1-33 only (out of 65).; Incipit (2nd work): Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus ... (f. 58r).; Explicit (2nd work): ... omnis beatitudo: omnis clementia sit deo patri et spiritui sancto. amen. (f. 143v).; Collation: i (contemporary parchment) + 144 + i (contemporary parchment); 1-6⁸, 7-9¹⁰, 10⁸, 11-16¹⁰; [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.; Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand. Scribe identifies himself as Gaspar on f. 56v and 143v.; Decoration: Illuminated initials in gold, blue, green, red and white (f. 1r, 58r); marginalia and section headings in red.; Binding: 15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; rebacked in the 19th century; joints worn with red rot.; Origin: Written in Italy 13 September, 1463 (f. 143v); Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 17