[Italian religious miscellany]

Contributor:

Monastero di Santo Spirito (Verona, Italy) (former owner)

Name:

Enselmino, da Montebelluna, active 13th century-14th century; Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Timespan:

15th century; To 1500

Date:

1464

Description:

Miscellany containing works on the Virgin Mary and her parents, Joachim and Anna; the Passion; the Resurrection; and Saint Thedosina. Also a poem in terze rima on the lamentation of the Virgin Mary and selections from Thomas Aquinas.; 1. f.1r-v; 2r-24r: La vita de Joachim del tribu di Juda ... -- 2. f.24r-44r: La passion del nostro Signor Giesu Christo. -- 3. f.44r-54v: Lo libro dela resurrectione del nostro Signor. -- 4. f.54v-65r: Li miracoli de la vergene Maria. -- 5. f.65r-76r: El pianto de la vergene Maria per la morte del suo dolce fiolo / Frater Anselmo [Enselmino da Montebelluna] -- 6. f.76r-81v: A laude e gloria sia de lo omnipotente dio e de la glorioxa vergine Maria e de madonna s[anc]ta Theodoxina laquale fo madre del dilecto apostolo di Jesu Christo misier [sic] san Bortolamio [sic] -- 7. f.84r-94r: Sancto Tomaxo daquino venerabille doctor si mete una questione ... / [Thomas of Aquinas]

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Monastero di Santo Spirito of Verona (inscription, f. 94v).; Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 542 (1930), no. 180a, and catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 239.; Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.

Subject:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Legends; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Christian saints in literature; Devotional literature; Italian literature -- 15th century; Italian literature; Italian poetry -- 15th century; Italian poetry; Religious poetry, Italian -- To 1500; Religious poetry, Italian

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Legends; Codices; Hagiographies (works); Poems; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

94 leaves : paper; 283 x 201 (207 x 150) mm bound to 292 x 202 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Foliation: Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Traces of a near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead and ink.; Script: Written in a formal book script (f. 1r-1v) by one hand that breaks off abruptly, with the text beginning again in a later semi-cursive humanistic script by a second hand. Works 2-6 begin with a few words in a larger, Gothic script. The sixth work has many corrections in another hand.; Decoration: 5-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 2r, 65r), 2-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 84), rubrics in red, with alternating red and blue initials, and capitals and Gothic incipits touched with yellow; manicule (f. 63r).; Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards; five brass bosses on each cover (one missing, upper cover, lower left corner); two clasps and catches, engraved and stamped IHS. Spine splitting. A few wormholes. Various stains and smudges.; Origin: Written in northern Italy, based on orthography and early provenance in Verona (f. 94v), in 1464 (f.1r) and mostly in 1473 or later (f. 2r).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 255