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Meditationes / reverendissimi patrus Johannis de Turrecremata sacro sancta Romae ecclesiae cardinalis positae et depictae de ipsius mandato in ecclesiae abitu Sanctae Mariae de Minerva Romae.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 684
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church.
- Meditations--Early works to 1800.
- Meditations.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Prayers and devotions.
- Prayers.
- Devotional literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1953.
- Physical Description:
- 27 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 273 x 202 (205 x 146) mm bound to 281 x 205 mm
- Production:
- Rome, 1469.
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Copy of Ulrich Han's printed edition (1466 or 1467) of Torquemada's 34 meditations on topics such as the birth of Christ, baptism, the Passion, and the Trinity.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title and attribution from f. 1r.
- Date from colophon, based on printed colophon with revised date (f. 27r): Ffinite sunt contemplaciones supradictae et continuatae Romae per Ulricum Han [Ulrich Han, printer in Rome] anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo nono die ultima mensis octobris.
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled in ink and drypoint.
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand. Marginal notes indicating topics of meditations in a second hand.
- Decoration: Foliate borders and initials in blue, white, green, pink, brown, and gold (f. 1r, 2r, 4v, 5r, 6r), with some unfinished. Spaces left for initials and decoration in the remainder of the volume; guide letters visible; rubricated heading (f. 1r).
- Binding: Modern half-vellum.
- Origin: Written in 1469 (f. 27r).
- Worm hole damage to pages.
- 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. 9 (Ms. Latin 37).
- Donati, L., "A Manuscript of 'Meditationes' Johannis de Turrecremata (1469)," Library Chronicle 21 (1955), pp. 51-60.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 684
- OCLC:
- 155985396
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