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

Name:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century; Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1350

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.

Subject:

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)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); illuminations (paintings); sermons; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Manuscripts, Latin; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

70 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm bound to 270 x 204 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of 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].; 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.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 744