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

Abstract:

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.

Creator:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century.

Date:

1350

Identifier:

9924875603503681; (OCoLC)ocn155985523; (OCoLC)155985523; (CStRLIN)PAUR98-A6670; (PU)2487560-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.

Publisher:

[Italy], [between 1350 and 1399]

Relation:

De arte dicendi et tacendi.; De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vite.; De consolatione et consilio.

Subject:

Consolation.; Consolation -- Early works to 1800.; 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); Codices.; Illuminations.; Sermons.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Manuscripts, Latin.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

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

Personal Name:

Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1.; Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge.; 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.; 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.; Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r).; 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).; Ms. codex.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 744