[Italian religious miscellany]

Timespan:

15th century

Date:

1457

Description:

Miscellany containing five religious and devotional works.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.

Subject:

Jesus Christ; John, the Baptist, Saint; Christian saints in literature; Devotional literature; Italian literature -- 15th century; Italian literature; Spirituality -- Catholic Church

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); hagiographies (literary genre); poems; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

180 leaves : paper; 218 x 145 (177 x 108) mm bound to 221 x 142 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-85v: Meditatione d[e la vita] de [Christo] / composto per frate Iacomo. -- 2. f.87r: Splendore superdo [sic] domini summo favore [Religious poem of seven lines] ... -- 3. f.93r-98r: [Fragment of a visionary work]. -- 4. f.100r-162v: Meditatione della vita de sanctu Jovanny Baptista. -- 5. f.164r-180v: La vita de sancto Honofrio confessore.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Inscription on inside front cover: Questo libro e de Santa Eucharistia de la gla gloria[?].; First work, heading: Qui comenza lo prolago de le [sic] meditatione de la vita de Christo composto per frate Iacomo de lo ordine di frati minuri traslatato de gramatica in latino. Incipit: Chiasche una persona de questo mondo ... (f. 1r). Parts of the heading are missing due to a loss of the upper outer corner of f. 1. In the heading [Christo] is written Xpo.; Second work, incipit: Splendore superdo [sic] diu summo fatore ... (f. 87r).; Third work is missing an unknown amount from the beginning.; Fourth work, heading: El prolago della meditatione della vita de sanctu Iovanny Baptista (f. 100r). Incipit of prologue (after heading): Ad laude de dio & della vloriosa vergene Maria ... (f. 100r). Incipit of text: Or incomenzamo la prima parte. dicono li sancti de luy che fo el piu singulare homo ... (f. 102r).; Fifth work, heading: Questa siene la vita de sancto Honofrio confessore (f. 164r). Incipit: Panuntiu humile servo della vostra santita a tucti li servi de dio ... (f. 164r).; First work copied by Johannes Benedicti Pauli de Nursia, who finished on 4 March 1457 (colophon, f. 85v: Expletus fuit liber iste per me Iohannem Benedicti Pauli de Nursia die quarta mensis martii 1457).; No indication of copyist or date for the other works, but they appear roughly contemporary.; The third, fragmentary work is written on a different sort of paper from the other portions of the manuscript.; Foliation: Paper, 180; 1-10, 12-91, [93-180]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in various humanistic scripts by different hands.; Decoration: Red used in some portions for headings and initials.; Binding: Contemporary vellum with ties.; Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1457 (colophon, f. 85v).; Binding loose; cover badly deteriorated and torn. Cover pulling away from book block. Possibly some slight mildew damage in the binding. Various stains and smudges on the leaves. Back endleaf loose.; Descriptive notes from bookseller Jacques Rosenthal on file in the Library.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 271