[Miscellany of religious verse and prose].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380.

Catherine.

Jesus Christ--In literature.

Jesus Christ.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.

Mary.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Devotional literature, Italian.

Italian literature--Early works to 1800.

Italian literature.

Italian poetry--Early works to 1800.

Italian poetry.

Spirituality--Catholic Church.

Spirituality.

Genre:

anthologies

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1959.

Physical Description:

54 leaves : paper ; 212 x 143 mm bound to 219 x 143 mm

Place of Publication:

[Siena?], [1400-1599]

Language Note:

Italian, with one prayer in Latin.

Summary:

Collection of religious verse and some prose.

Contents:

1. f.2r-6r: Visione contemplativa [21 eight-line stanzas] (incipit: Questa si chiama una visione contemplativa la quale visione fu mostrata a uno grande procettore et cosi co lui che cosi vidde la ricopio poi in rima).

2. f.6v-7r: Untitled poem (perhaps a continuation of the previous, in a different hand) [35 lines] (incipit: Pero ti[m?]pito che tumiri spondi / ...).

3. f.8r-8v: Oratione (incipit: Qui addomanda la gratia de la quale tu ai desiderio davere, Per la quale oratione te singularmente prego come certa cosa ...).

4. f.8v-9v: Oratione della Vergine Maria (incipit: Ad voi signor mio Yesu Christo ...)

5. f.12r: [Fragment of?] two seven-line verses.

6. f.12r-13v: La laude del corpo di Christo [one two-line and eleven six-line stanzas] (incipit: Ogniuno adori in questo pan sagrato ...).

7. f.13v-14v: La laude di santa Caterina da Siena [one four-line and seven five-line stanzas] (incipit: Qual vergine a dio sia tanto acietta ...).

8. f.14v-17r: La laude del venardi santo [eight eight-line stanzas], followed by another untitled poem [one two-line and nine six-line stanzas].

9. f.17r-18v: Laude del vano parlare.

10. f.18v-19v: Laude di santo Ansano martire.

11. f.19v-22v: Laude [pestilence in Siena].

12. f.32r-33v: Prayers.

13. f.34r-36r: Thirty three-line poems (incipit: Ave pastor al sommo grado dengnio ...).

14. f.37r-40r: Francesco Petrarca. Oratione optima a nostra dona di misere [Canz. 366].

15. f.41r-v: Prayer in Latin.

16. f.43r-44r: Historical data regarding Florence, 1186-1327.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 54 + i (modern paper); [1-54]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script by different hands.

Decoration: Red or blue initials, some with ornamentation (f. 12r, 37r); rubricated headings.

Binding: Modern boards.

Origin: Written in Siena in the 15th and 16th centuries (Zacour-Hirsch).

Various stains and smudges.

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. 107 (Ms. Italian 73).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 315

Contains:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. Selections

Oratione optima a nostra dona di misere.

OCLC:

155964357