De amore et dilectione dei et proximi, ac de forma vitae ... [etc.]

Alternate Title:

Albertani Causidici Brixiensis de amore et dilectione dei et proximi, ac de forma vitae libri IV, de consolatione et consilio liber singularis

Contributor:

Chasles, M. 1793-1880 (former owner)

Name:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century; Pseudo-Lentulus; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1400

Description:

Collection of works (with preceding table of contents) by Albertano da Brescia on civic peace, the community, and the role of the individual; also includes a letter by Bernard of Clairvaux, and a copy of the apocryphal letter of P. Lentulus to the Roman senate describing the physical appearance of Jesus Christ; manuscript has been completed in two parts (first part, f. i-ii, 1-48; sectiond part, f. 49-86, i-ii) which have been bound together.; 1. f.1r-49v: Liber de amore et dilectione dei / Albertano da Brescia.; 2. f.50r-77r: Liber consolationis et consilii / Albertano da Brescia.; 3. f.77v-85r: Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi / Albertano da Brescia.; 4. f.85r-86r: Epistola / Bernard of Clairvaux.; 5. f.86v: Epistola ad senatum romanum / Publius Lentulus.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Michel Chasles (bookplate, inside upper cover: "Ex bibliotheca Michaelis Chasles Acad. Scientiar. Socii." with engraver's signature L. Benard).; Sold by Herbert Reichner (New York), 1966.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/128

Subject:

Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric; Christian life -- Early works to 1800; Christian life; Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800; Christian ethics; Consolation -- Early works to 1800; Consolation

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Illuminations; Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

90 leaves : parchment; 231 x 137 (168 x 85) mm bound to 238 x 140 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from table of contents (f. iii recto); 17th-century title page lists titles of other works by Albertano (f. ii recto).; Collation: Parchment, ii (17th-century paper) + 90 + ii (17th-century paper); 1² 2-7⁸ 8-11¹⁰; [ii], 1-86, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords in pen-flourished boxes on the lower center of the last verso of quires 2-7; quires 8-11 have catchwords on the lower center verso of the last verso of each quire. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 35 long lines; ruled in lead and drypoint; prickings visible; rulings in the second part (f. 49r to end) done with a rake.; Script: Written in an Italian Gothic book hand by two scribes in red and brown ink.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet Oiseau 12250 (1592) and 12251 (1590).; Decoration: Illuminated 3-line initial "Q" with flowers, gold, and blue, red, green, pink, and yellow ink (f. 50r), pen-flourished 2-line initials in red and blue (f. 49r-84r).; Binding: 17th-century vellum with gilt title Opere spiri. temp.; Origin: Written in Italy (perhaps Veneto) in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 925