Pratica deli devoti.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Devotional literature--Early works to 1800.

Jesus Christ.

Devotional literature, Italian.

Trinity--Early works to 1800.

Trinity.

Spirituality--Catholic Church.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Devotional literature.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.

Physical Description:

40 leaves : paper ; 143 x 105 (103 x 76) mm bound to 150 x 110 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1450 and 1499]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Devotional treatises, one in 2 chapters on the Trinity, the other in 10 chapters on Jesus Christ, with references to the visions of either Mechthild of Magdeburg or Mechthild of Hackeborn.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from incipit (f. 2r): Incomenza la pratica deli devoti overo devotioni de menare la mente ad Yesu Cristo secundo la visioni dela beata Mechtilde ...

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 40 + i (modern paper); [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 20-21 lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.

Decoration: Extensive use of red for initials, headings, etc. A few initials decorated with faint blue, yellow, etc.

Binding: Modern vellum.

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

Most leaves badly stained, possibly from water.

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. 111 (Ms. Italian 91).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 335

OCLC:

155964413