Della pazienza, 1400 - 1425
Abstract
Table of contents: Qui se comença lo libro della patientia. el quale se chiama medicina del core. Nel quale se contengono li rimedii contra le tribulationi e Le Tribulationi e le desperatione. Liquali Remedii fortifica lanima deuota ad resistere contra epate e meritare uita eterna; preface; table of chapters for Book I; chapter 1, A detestatione et biasmo dell ira; chapter 2, Como la patientia ene grande Victoria et singnioria et como per tre Rasuini li sancti seglorano nelle tribulatinni. Capitulum 1; Book II, Ad comendatione et laude de la patientia. sonno imprima in multi admonimenti de la scriptura sancta ce inducono ad questa virtu; verses at end of Book II, Qui nello infra scripti versi se contene la sententia del precedente tractato della patientia.
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1425
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Italian
Custodial History
Written in Italy at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Early provenance unknown. Remnants of an early ownership stamp on f. 1r shows a 28 x 23 mm. oval outlined in black ink with traces of a design of scallops and dots also in black along the inside top of the oval. Autograph catalogue entry in Italian glued to inside cover; also on inside cover in lead: "ea/-/-", "44/57", and "50oo". Description of MS in lead on the verso of the f. iv, in Italian. Obtained from H. P. Kraus in 1949 by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate).
Authors
- Cavalca, Domenico, -1342
Other related names
- Kraus, H.P., former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, donor
- Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart, owner
- Gordan, John Dozier Jr., owner
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Howard Lehman Goodhart to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.
Physical Description
Paper is somewhat worn; modern repairs have been made along lower margins with no loss of text.
Paper support (watermarks: unidentified mountain), ff. iv (modern paper, i=front pastedown) + 101 + iv (modern paper, iv=back pastedown).
20th c. parchment. On upper spine in black ink with the first initial of each word red: " Cavalca/ Trattato/ della/ Pazienza" and on lower spine: Codex MS./ Saec. XV_". Paper label taped to spine contains Goodhart's manuscript number: "Ms. # 81".
220 x 145 (163-169 x 105) mm.
Quires are not standardized: quires 1, 2, and 8 are 30-32 unruled long lines with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines; quire 4 is the same except 26-8 lines; quires 3 and 9 are written in two columns with vertical and horizontal bounding lines framing each column, both quires are unruled; quire 3 is 34-35 lines; quire 9 is 32 lines; in all six quires the scribe writes above top line; quires 5-7 are all ruled, and bounded with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, quire 5 is written in 36-7 long lines, quires 6 and 7 in 32 lines, all three are written below the top line.
Humanistic bookhand script, written by a single scribe
Somewhat crude 1- to 3-line red initials begin the text in each chapter. Chapter headings, paragraph markers and sentence strokes in red; other sentence strokes in yellow. Guide letters for rubricator visible.
Modern foliation.
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