Epistulae; De Clementia; Sermo de corpore Christi; Meditationes; Epistula de morte S. Hireronymi; De quatuor virtutibus; Epistula ad Cyrillum; Epistula ad Augustinum; etc., 1400 - 1450
Abstract
This is an Italian manuscript from the first half of the fifteenth century, which contains many texts that can be divided into five sections: an opening fragment from Giovanni da Calvoli's Meditations on the Life of Christ; a small group of texts by early Christian writers on the hagiography of Saint Jerome; a large group of letters by Saint Jerome, some spurious; a small group of works attributed to Seneca or Pseudo-Seneca; sermons of Franciscus de Mayronis. These are followed by a short group of precepts for all Christians. It is supposed that the manuscript was probably copied in a Franciscan environment and, although none of the texts is rare, the compilation is unusual and rarely brought together in this fashion.
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1450
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Manuscript probably copied in a Franciscan environment (because of the particular combination of texts), and most likely in central Italy (on the basis of the script and the delicate penwork decoration). Unidentified erased stamp on first folio of first quire containing table of contents.
Authors
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Franciscus, de Mayronis, approximately 1285-approximately 1328
- Giovanni, da Campione, active 14th century
- Pseudo-Eusebius
- Pseudo-Seneca
- Pseudo-Augustinus
- Pseudo-Cyrillus
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund.
Physical Description
The third text, Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona: Epistola de morte Sancti Hieronimi, lacking first folio for proper incipit
Parchment support
Modern calf half-binding sewn on four thongs, parchment-like paper over cardboard boards, pastedowns and flyleaves in parchment.
i+[6]+190 (fol. 1 lacking)+i; 207 x 138 mm bound to 215 x 145 mm.
Single column of thirty-one lines ruled in hard point; written area: 155 x 85 mm.
Humanistic script, written by a single scribe. Numerous marginal annotations or corrections, tiemarks in the margins, maniculae pointing to specific passages in text.
Rubrics and paragraph marks in red, catchwords in lower margin, headings in red, alternating red and blue 2-line initials, 17 larger initials (3 to 6-line high) marking the beginning of various texts, some calligraphed with penwork in pale red and blue extending in the margin.
Modern foliation in pencil upper right recto for table contents, as [1-6], and fols. 2-16 before giving way to contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto.
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