Via salutis, del dieta.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Guillaume, de Lanicia, -after 1310.

Contributor:

Bilicich, Stephanus, scribe.

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Diaeta salutis

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Sveti Nikola (Abbey : Šibenik, Croatia).

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Spiritual life--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.

Spiritual life--Catholic Church.

Šibenik (Croatia).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Annals and chronicles.

Poetry.

Prayers.

Recipes.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Guillaume Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 1043; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps ms. 14870).

Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10-17 June 1896, lot 1261.

Appears in Jacques Rosenthal's catalog 83 (1925), no. 49.

Acquired, 1953.

Physical Description:

93 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 215 x 148 (138 x 85) mm bound to 221 x 144 mm

Other Title:

Hec est via ambulate in ea.

Place of Publication:

[Šibenik, Croatia], 1449-1453.

Language Note:

Latin, with several items in Italian.

Summary:

Text of Via salutus, vel dieta, by Guilelmus (or Guillaume) de Lanicia (f. 1r-73r). There is an index of chapter headings on f. 91v-92r. Also includes a chronicle of the abbey of St. Nicholas in Sebenico from 1421-1453 (f. 73r-75r), by Stephanus Bilicich. Folios 75v-79r are blank. Also includes a miscellany, primarily in the hand of Stephanus Bilicich (f. 79v-94v); includes a cryptogram (f. 80r), prayers, proverbs, recipes (including for ink) and an Italian poem (f. 88r; this poem has one line for every letter of the alphabet).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from heading (f. 1r).

First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Hec est via ambulate in ea ... (f. 73r) orationes pro dampnatis deus non exaudit.

Colophon (f. 73r): Iste liber est mei fratris Strephani Bilicich, abbatis monasterii sancti Nicolai portus sibenicensis, quem scripsi manu propria. [It is then dated 1449.].

Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 73r) 1421. Consecrata fuit ecclesia in vodice ... (f. 75r) Dominus Michael dux[?] Seubenico obiit nescio quando.

Incipit of Italian poem (f. 88r): Ara la arena, chi per comune pena [this is repeated as an explicit].

Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 93 + i (modern paper); 1-5¹⁶, 6¹⁴ ( -1); 1-89, 91-94; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto. Catchwords in lower center margin, last verso of each quire, in a decorative border. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.

Script: Written in Gothic hybrid and Gothic cursive scripts; at least partly (if not mainly) in the hand of Stephanus Bilicich.

Decoration: 6-line initial in red and white on a gold illuminated background, with foliage in margin (f. 1r); gold has mostly flaked away, leaving only the ground; several other colored initials in red, purple, yellow, green, brown, and black with penwork ornamentation; extensive use of red for highlights, headings and decorations; frequent use of manicules in margins.

Binding: 15th-century Italian vellum over boards, rebacked. Vellum splitting and pulling away from spine. Possible evidence of slight water damage.

Origin: Written in Sebenico (Dalmatia), 1449-1453 (f. 73r-75r). Today Sebenico is Šibenik in Croatia.

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. 161 (Ms. Lea 62).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 88

Contains:

Ara la arena, chi per comune pena.

OCLC:

155962319

Online:

Collation model