(Q8844)
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Italian literature--15th century
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[1457?]
15. century
1457Gregorian
1457Gregorian
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Extent: 180 leaves : paper ; 218 x 145 (177 x 108) mm bound to 221 x 142 mm
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Descriptive notes from bookseller Jacques Rosenthal on file in the Library.
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Ms. codex.
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Binding loose; cover badly deteriorated and torn. Cover pulling away from book block. Possibly some slight mildew damage in the binding. Various stains and smudges on the leaves. Back endleaf loose.
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Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1457 (colophon, f. 85v).
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First work, heading: Qui comenza lo prolago de le [sic] meditatione de la vita de Christo composto per frate Iacomo de lo ordine di frati minuri traslatato de gramatica in latino. Incipit: Chiasche una persona de questo mondo ... (f. 1r). Parts of the heading are missing due to a loss of the upper outer corner of f. 1. In the heading [Christo] is written Xpo.
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Second work, incipit: Splendore superdo [sic] diu summo fatore ... (f. 87r).
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Third work is missing an unknown amount from the beginning.
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Fourth work, heading: El prolago della meditatione della vita de sanctu Iovanny Baptista (f. 100r). Incipit of prologue (after heading): Ad laude de dio & della vloriosa vergene Maria ... (f. 100r). Incipit of text: Or incomenzamo la prima parte. dicono li sancti de luy che fo el piu singulare homo ... (f. 102r).
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Fifth work, heading: Questa siene la vita de sancto Honofrio confessore (f. 164r). Incipit: Panuntiu humile servo della vostra santita a tucti li servi de dio ... (f. 164r).
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First work copied by Johannes Benedicti Pauli de Nursia, who finished on 4 March 1457 (colophon, f. 85v: Expletus fuit liber iste per me Iohannem Benedicti Pauli de Nursia die quarta mensis martii 1457).
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No indication of copyist or date for the other works, but they appear roughly contemporary.
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The third, fragmentary work is written on a different sort of paper from the other portions of the manuscript.
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Foliation: Paper, 180; 1-10, 12-91, [93-180]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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Script: Written in various humanistic scripts by different hands.
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Decoration: Red used in some portions for headings and initials.
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Binding: Contemporary vellum with ties.
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Inscription on inside front cover: Questo libro e de Santa Eucharistia de la gla gloria[?].
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Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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