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Memoriale ad passagium mortis tute faciendum / compilatus per Reverendum i[n Christo] patrem dominum Bartholomeum de Vitellensibus de Corneto, Episcopum Cornetanum et Montis Flascone.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bartholomeus, de Vitellensibus de Corneto.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Sacraments--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.
- Sacraments--Catholic Church.
- Confession--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Confession--Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- procedures (documents)
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Cecil Deedes (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.
- Physical Description:
- 36 leaves : paper ; 202 x 141 (125 x 88) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [14--]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- A handbook for the faithful concerned with their impending deaths, describing the proper steps to take, the necessary rituals, and the experiences associated with the approach of life's end in order to fully prepare both their souls for the release from the mortal coil and entry into the afterlife and their worldly possessions for inheritance.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-1v: Exordium.
- 2. f.1v-2r: Devoti confessoris electio.
- 3. f.2r-2v: Confessoris leta visitatio.
- 4. f.2v-6v: Sacramentorum suscipiendorum quincuplex exortatio.
- 5. f.6v-9r: Memorie mortis triplex utilitas.
- 6. f.9r-19r: De bono mortis quod bonum sit; nec timenda; set optanda septem rationibus demostratur.
- 7. f.19r-28r: Morientium quincuplex temptatio.
- 8. f.28r: Infirmi devota confessio.
- 9. f.28r-34v: Hic cadet confessio, absolutio, penitentia, sacra comunio, testamenti ordinatio.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption title (f. 1r).
- Incipit: Si quis in hoc presenti seculo ad partes remotas profecturus in legatione est (f. 1r); Explicit: ...peccata diluere, et celeste regnum aperire (f. 34v).
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 36 + i (modern paper); [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 26 long lines, ruled in lead and ink with horizontal and vertical bounding lines.
- Script: Written in an Italian Bolognese Gothic book script.
- Decoration: 2-line initials in red ink; rubricated headings; manicules in margins (f. 22r, 28r).
- Binding: Rebacked in 20th-century vellum by Steinemann; original or early binding of green damask over oak boards, with remains of a metal clasp embossed with the Agnus Dei on the lower cover and parchment pastedowns from a Latin text, shelved separately.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969). p. 7 (Ms. Latin 209).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1232.
- OCLC:
- 234234772
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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