La vita e ... la conversione del nostro segniore [jhesu] [christo].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ.

Spirituality--Catholic Church.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1952.

Physical Description:

60 leaves : parchment ; 244 x 170 (181 x 123) mm bound to 247 x 174 mm

Other Title:

Intra le altre grande vertude che se lezeno de sancta Cecilia vergene sie questa che ella portava sempre lo euangelio de [jhesu] [christo] abscoso i[n] del suo pecto.

Vita e conversione del nostro Signore.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [14--]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Manuscript containing an account of the life of Jesus. Also contains what appear to be short sayings of Jesus or prayers in a different hand (f. 60r). This text ends abruptly, possibly in mid-sentence.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from heading (f. 1r): Questo libro tracta de la vita e de la conversione del nostro segnioro yhu xpo.

Modern note in orange pencil (inside upper cover): Vita e conversione del nostro Signore.

Incipit: Intra le altre grande vertude che se lezeno de sancta Cecilia vergene sie questa che ella portava sempre lo euangelio de [Christo] abscoso i[n] del suo pecto.... (f. 1r).

Collation: Parchment, 60; 1-7⁸, 8⁴; [1-60]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 37 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script: Written in a miniscule bookhand by a single hand, except for occasional corrections and additions. The text on f. 60r appears to be in a different hand.

Decoration: 6-line initial with penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); rubricated headings and initials.

Binding: Contemporary half leather over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Back cover board split, with evidence of a repair attempt; a couple of the nails are loose. Front board securely attached but back board somewhat loose. The leather that covered the spine has almost completely worn away. Parchment stained in places, sometimes badly. Some smudges. Ink mostly clear, but faded on some folios. A few wormholes. Some doodling on f. 60r-v.

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. 95 (Ms. Italian 18).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 260

OCLC:

155964208

Online:

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