[Jesuit miscellany].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Maldonado, Juan de, 1534-1583.
• Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572
• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153

Language:

• German
• Latin
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Jesuits--Rules--Early works to 1800.
• Jesuits.
• Monasticism and religious orders--Rules--Early works to 1800.
• Monasticism and religious orders--Rules.
• Meditations--Early works to 1800.
• Meditations.
• Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.
• Sermons, Latin.
• Sermons, Spanish--Early works to 1800.
• Sermons, Spanish.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• excerpts
• sermons
• Hybrid books.
• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.
• Rules.

Physical Description:

171 leaves : paper ; 140 x 85 mm bound to 147 x 95 mm

Place of Publication:

[Benelux countries?], 1567-1584.

Language Note:

Latin (f. 1r-56v), with some Spanish (f. 78r-169v) and sections of German.

Summary:

A collection of various printed and handwritten works on Jesuit rules and prayers. The opening manuscript sections contain summaries of the constitutions, rules, meditations, excerpts from Saint Bernard, exhortations, and an index of bulls and ordinances relating to the order. The summary of the constitutions contains sections on poverty, obedience, and other aspects of the Jesuit rules. The rules are addressed to priests, counselors, and attendants. The third work contains some sermons by Saint Bernard. The sixth deals mostly with penitents and confession. Section 8 contains various printed works, all on one side of the leaf only, with handwritten works on confession and mass, along with excerpts from Saint Bernard and the beatitudes, on the other sides. The Seys tratados muy devotos is printed, and consists of a sermon and 5 treatises, and a letter by Saint Bernard. Some catchwords are present on the lower right rectos throughout. Many of the pages bear either a cross on top or the Jesuit IHS topped with a cross.

Contents:

• 1. f. 1r-13r: Summarium earum constitutionum quae ad spiritualem nostrorum(?) institutionem pertinent et ab omnibus observandae sunt.
• 2. f. 13r-15v: Meditationes in singulus dies admonitus.
• 3. f. 16v-27v: Meditationes in singulus dies quadragesimae ex sacro evangelio desumptae.
• 4. f. 27r-38r: Exhortationes aliquot / Juan Maldenado.
• 5. f. 40v-42r: Regulae sacerdotum societatis.
• 6. f. 46r-49r: Modus iuvandi proximus.
• 7. f. 50-53v: Documenta quaedem a confessariis domesticorum observanda.
• 8. f. 54r-70r: [Regulae and other miscellaneous liturgical documents]
• 9. f. 71r-77r: Regulae prefecti ecclesiae.
• 10. f. 78r-171v: [Seys tratados muy devotos] / Francisco de Borja.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Foliation: Paper, 171 leaves: [1-171]. Multiple contemporary foliation schemes present in ink, upper right recto. Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in record are to modern foliation.
• Layout: Some frame-ruling present.
• Script: Written in two very small cursive hands.
• Decoration: Manicule (f. 37v); woodcut with chart of days of the week and seated figure (f. 59r); small floral design (f. 62v); various printed initials with floral and animal motifs throughout Seys tratados muy devotos (f. 78r-171v).
• Binding: Modern cloth (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Origin: Written in the Benelux countries[?], 1567-1584 (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 (2), Library Chronicle (1970), no. 1, p. 35 (Ms. Lea 453).
• Work 10 described in Backer, Augustin de and Sommervogel, Carlos. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris: A. Picard, 1890-1932), v. 1, col. 1809.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1254

Contains:

Seys tratados muy devotos.

OCLC:

244575269