De meditatione passionis christi per septem diei horas libellus ... etc. : in Latin and Italian]. (DS3485) (Q17237)

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De meditatione passionis christi per septem diei horas libellus ... etc. : in Latin and Italian]. (DS3485)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444834, MS q Med.198)

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    28 November 2023
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    De meditatione passionis christi per septem diei horas libellus ... etc. : in Latin and Italian].
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Italian--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Extent: 60 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 115 x 72 (62 x 48) mm bound to 12 cm in box 13 cm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Latin and Italian.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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    Title devised by cataloger.
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    Secundo folio: ...dominus erit presens...
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (heavy parchment flyleaves) + 60 ; 1-610 ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
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    Layout: 1 column, 23 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
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    Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics (beginning at fol. 29v, i.e. ch. 15 of the Soliloquiorum).
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    Decoration: 7-line initials throughout, beginning at folio 17, in blue with red filigree with blue and red filigree into margin, with birds and decorative penwork; eight 8-line initials in colors on gold with elaborate floriate half-borders, one at the beginning of each Book of the Meditationes; 10-line initial on fol. 1 in colors on gold with acanthus and sprays in inner margin, historiated...
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    Binding: 16th century? blind-stamped goatskin over wooden boards, interlace border and center panel, evidence of clasp on fore-edge, no pastedowns or flyleaves; housed in later calf pull-off case, lined with red velvet, title gilt on spine: "S[an]c[t]o Berna[r]do/ Meditatione/ Stimola de lamore/ Ms. xv sec." Remnants of BPL label with old number in paper on front edge of box.
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    Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. The first text is attributed to Bernard in the manuscript, although the accepted attribution is "Pseudo-Bede." The second text, the Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquiorum animae ad deum, begins in Latin and switches to Italian mid-sentence on the fourth line of folio 28v, in the middle of chapter XIV (see Opera Omnia, col. 1277, line 4). The...
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    Provenance: Early inscriptions on folio i: "Aquistato a di 21 Julio/1777"; and 59v [illegible].
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in 1953.
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    Call number: MS q Med.198.
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    Former call number: MS 1553.
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    Bibliography: Pseudo-Bede: Patrologia latina: 94:561-568. ; Pseudo-Augustine: Sancti Aurelii Augustini...Opera Omnia (Paris, 1837), VI: 1262-1308 ; Geneviève Esnos, "Les traductions médiévales françaises et italiennes des Soliloques attribués à Saint Augustin," Ecole française de Rome. Mélanges d'archéologie et d'Histoire 79 (1967): 299-366.
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    4 December 2023
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