[Classical and Catholic miscellany].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Dutch

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800.

Cardinal virtues.

Latin poetry--Early works to 1800.

Latin poetry.

Latin literature--Early works to 1800.

Latin literature.

Cambrai (France)--History.

Cambrai (France).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

indexes (reference sources)

poems

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Ownership inscription: Franciscus [?] convictor (second half 17th century, inside upper cover).

Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon).

Physical Description:

92 leaves : paper ; 154 x 100 mm bound to 159 x 104 mm

Production:

[Netherlands?], [after 1650]

Language Note:

Latin, with some words and phrases in Dutch in the phrase lists at the end of the volume (f. 81r-90v).

Summary:

Collection of scholarly and devotional materials, some copied from 17th-century publications. The Latin works in the front of the volume include indexes of Virgilian topoi and letters of Cicero; a devotional poem on the suffering of Christ and other unidentified poems; and selections from Jesuit-authored works published in Antwerp, such as a verse account of the lifting of a siege of Cambrai (Cameracum), a work on the cardinal virtues heavily based on classical authors, and part of an elegy by Guilielmus Becanus (Willem van der Beke). Starting from the back is a list in two columns of phrases in Latin and Dutch, in some entries pairing Latin synonyms and in others giving Dutch equivalents for Latin (f. 90v-81r).

Contents:

1. f.1r-2v: Loci communes affectuum ex Virgilio

2. f.7r: [Latin notes]

3. f.10r-14r: Index epistolarum M.T. Ciceronis ad certum ordinem redactarum

4. f.15r-16v: De Christo patiente

5. f.18r-25v: Cameracum obsidione liberatum a serenissimo Archiduce Leopoldo Guilermo / Othonis Zylii e Societate Jesu

6. f.26r-30r: [Selections from Virtutes cardinales ethico emblemate expressae / Jacobus Caterus, S.J.]

7. f.30r-32v: Ad testam cineribus plenam in rerum humanarum vanitatem expendit

8. f.32v: Mortale est quodcumque vides ... [Selection from Elegia VII / Guilielmi Becani]

9. f.33r-35r: Quam iuvat arcanas rerum cognoscere causas verbaque ...

10. f.81r-90v: [Latin and Dutch equivalents and associated phrases]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 92; [i, 1-91 (36-80 blank)], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script.

Binding: Contemporary (17th-century?) parchment over cardboard; remnants of two pairs of leather ties.

Origin: Written, possibly in the Netherlands, after 1650 (first edition of Cameracum obsidione liberatum).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1650

Contains:

Zyll, Otto van, 1588-1656. Cameracum obsidione liberatum.

Cater, Jacques de, 1593-1657. Virtutes cardinales ethico emblemate expressae.

Beke, Willem van der, 1608-1683. Idyllia et elegiae.

OCLC:

898746506