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[Ascetic miscellany].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 717
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Asceticism--Early works to 1800.
- Asceticism.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Judgment Day--Early works to 1800.
- Soul--Early works to 1800.
- Soul.
- Hagiography--Early works to 1800.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Italy--Early works to 1800.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
- Hagiography.
- Judgment Day.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by engineer and industrialist Ernesto Pagnoni of Vaprio d'Adda near Milan (gilt exlibris stamp designed by Sigmund Lipinsky in 1912, inside upper cover), known to have been active as collector after 1908 (TextManuscripts).
- Sold by Le Medicea (Florence), 1957.
- Physical Description:
- 56 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 227 x 166 (154 x 109) mm bound to 236 x 166 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1470 and 1499]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-13v: De arte bene moriendi.
- 2. f.14r: Ex legenda sancti Bernardi.
- 3. f.14r-42r: De miseria humane conditionis / Pope Innocent III.
- 4. f.42v-43v: XV signa ante saeculi consumationem fienda [in verse].
- 5. f.44r-50v: Altercatio animae et corporis / compilata per beatum Bernardum [in verse].
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- 1st work (f. 1r): Incipit prohemium de arte bene moriendi...Cum de presentis exilii miseria mortis transitus propter moriendi... Attributed to Matthew of Cracow by Zacour-Hirsch (note, p. 19), but this attribution is questioned by S. Clark.
- 2nd work (f. 14r): Ex legenda sancti Bernardi. Infirmatus aliquando vir dei Bernardus cum... From Jacobus de Voragine, according to S. Clark.
- 3rd work (f. 14r): Incipit liber de miseria humane conditionis editus a Lothario dyacono Cardinali tituli sanctorum Sergii et Bachi. Qui postea Innocentius papa in appellatus est. Titulum autem opusculi portuensis episcopi est nomini dedicavit. Incipiunt capta euisdem libri. De miseria hominis...
- 4th work incipit (f. 42v): XV signa ante seculi consumationem fienda. Verse, derived from the version found in Voragine, Legenda aurea (according to S. Clark).
- 5th work incipit: Altercatio animae et corporis revelata ciudam devoto compilata per beatum Bernardum. Incipit vir quidam dum steterat velud heremita [variant of Walther 20421], f. 44r.
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern parchment) + 56+ i (modern parchment); [1-56]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled in lead.
- Script: Written in Gothic rotunda script by a single hand.
- Decoration: Illuminated interlaced white-vine full border, with coat of arms which has been defaced, in rose, green, blue, and gold (f. 1r); illuminated initials (f. 14v, 24v, 36r); rubricated; alternating red and blue initials throughout.
- Watermarks: Briquet no. 7833 (Venice 1460) and no. 7834 (Rome 1470).
- Binding: Modern (early 20th century) gilt-tooled leather, for Ernesto Pagnoni (large liberty-style gilt tooled and painted exlibris stamp inside front cover) after 1912.
- Origin: Written in Italy between 1470 and 1499 (Clark, date based on watermarks).
- Full codicological description (typescript) and transcription of 4th work (f. 42-43) by S. Clark, n.d., is shelved with the manuscript.
- 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. 19 (Ms. Latin 90).
- For the religious verse see Hans Walther, Initia carminum ac versum medii aevi posterioris Latinorum.
- Publications about:
- Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 41, 84-85 (cat. 13).
- Cited as:
- Ascetic Miscellany (Ms. Codex 717). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216. De contemptu mundi.
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
- De arte bene moriendi.
- Ex legenda sancti Bernardi.
- Altercatio animae et corporis.
- OCLC:
- 155985482
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