De descriptione terre s[an]c[t]e ... [etc.].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Burchard, of Mount Sion, -1285.

Contributor:

• Brocardus, Teutonicus.
• Peregrinus, de Sancto Vito, scribe.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Alban, Saint, -304?.
• Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.
• Christian saints--Biography.
• Crusades--Early works to 1800.
• Crusades.
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine.
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
• Middle East--Description and travel.
• Middle East.
• Palestine--Description and travel.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.
• Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.
• Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Stamp with initials "P.F." (front flyleaf recto and f. 58v); traces of earlier ownership notation, "L.S.M."? (f. 58v).
• Sold by Hoepli (Milan), 1953.

Physical Description:

58 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 252 x 186 (168 x 124) mm bound to 259 x 194 mm

Other Title:

• De descriptione terrae sanctae.
• In libro monachorum de temporalibus contempnendis.
• Metra moralium philosophorum.
• Historia Beati Albani.
• De geographia.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1350 and 1450]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Contains the text of De descriptione terre sancte, of Burchardus of Monte Sion (f. 1r-42v). The author's name is given in the text as Brocardus Theotonicus [i.e. Teutonicus] (f. 42v, col. 1). Also contains 4 shorter texts: De modo recuperationis terre sancte, of Marino Sanudo (f. 42v-49v.), composed in 1307 (prologue, f. 42v), better known as Secreta fidelium Crucis; In libro monachorum de temporalibus contempnendis (f. 49v); Metra moralium philosophorum de virtutibus [consisting of eight short poems] (f. 50r); and Iystoria [i.e. Historia] Beati Albani (f. 51r-56v).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r). Title on cover: De geographia; title on spine: De geo[graphia et] descrip[tione] terre s[an]c[t]e. Title as given in Zacour-Hirsch: Viridica Terrae Sanctae ... descriptio. Titles of the other works are taken from caption titles at the beginning of each work.
• 1st work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Cum in veteribus ystoriis legimus sicut dicit ... (f. 42v) primo deus secundo parentes tertio filii diligendi sunt.
• 2nd work, incipit and explicit: (f. 42v) Ad perficiendum quod nullus sit ausus transferare in terris ... (f. 49v) Unde videtur quod Bibar Sinicher abstulerit dominium Soldanatici cheyri et Babilonis cuius rei causa divisio est inter Amiralios. Deo gracias.
• 2nd work, colophon: (f. 49v) Explicit conscilium domini Marini Sanudi de terra sancta. et cetera. Ego Peregrinus de sancto vito praedictum librum exemplavi a libro domini Archiepiscopi Ravennae.
• 3rd work, incipit and explicit: (f. 49v) Mens tua terrenis non inhereat ... Quicquid dies hominis sumus et umbra sumus.
• 4th work, incipit and explicit: (f. 50r) Quicquid agas ratio consulta preambulet actum ... nona tegit solem prima neccat ultima prolem.
• 5th work, incipit and explicit: (f. 51r) Erat olim in partibus aquilonis homo ... (f. 56v) ut per exemplum Albani tui servi tui mereamur et nos cum eo a nostris facinoribus ablui et super nivem de albari. Amen.
• Collation: Parchment, i (17th-century paper) + 58 + i (17th-century paper); 1-5¹⁰, 6⁸; [1-58]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. There are also traces of a previous foliation, partially erased, in 16th-century arabic numerals, upper right recto, 47-104. Link to collation model at end of record.
• Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
• Script: Written in an Italian Gothic script, possibly in the hand of Peregrinus de Sancto Vito (f. 49v).
• Binding: 17th-century Italian paper over pasteboards.
• Origin: Written in Italy in the late 14th or early 15th century.
• Decoration: 2-line initials in red with purple filigree and blue with red filigree; rubricated headings; 5-line decorated initial in red, blue, yellow, green, pink and white (f. 1r); 4-line decorated initial in red, blue, pink and white (f. 51r).
• The ink is flaking and wearing away throughout the manuscript, but especially in the first work.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 147 (Ms. Lea 4).

Publications about:

• Fourth and eighth poems from the Metra moralium philosophorum: Walther, H. Initia carminum (Göttingen, 1959), 3557 and 14595 respectively.
• Historia Beati Albani: Bibliotheca hagiographica latina [BHL] (Brussels: Socii Bollandiani, 1898-99), 201 (v. I, p. 34).

Cited as:

Burchard of Mount Sion, De descriptione terre sancte (Ms. Codex 60). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Contains:

Sanudo, Marino, approximately 1260-1343. Secreta fidelium Crucis

OCLC:

155962930

Access Restriction:

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Online:

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