(Q49613)
Statements
Edward Clark Streeter
0 references
New York Academy of Medicine
0 references
First half of the fifteenth century
15. century
1400Gregorian
1450Gregorian
0 references
end of the fifteenth century
0 references
Extent: ff. 74; parchment; 222 x 142; 221 x 134
0 references
Layout: 2 columns of 31 lines, ruled in lead.
0 references
Layout: 2 columns ruled in ink (but leaves are cut, so line count is not possible); text is copied in 2 sizes according to liturgical function
0 references
Script: Gothic
0 references
Script: Gothic
0 references
Decoration: Alternating red and blue flourished initials. Rubrics in red.
0 references
Decoration: On back flyleaf, one 2-line initial in blue with red flourishing, set on a white-patterned square ground; one 2-line initial in red with blue flourishing; 2-line initials alternating red and blue; 1-line initials in red; slashing in red of initials within the text; red rubrics.
0 references
Binding: Bound, s. XVI, in vellum with contemporary leather ties. Manuscript title “Opusculum sancti Bonaventurae” both on the spine and on the bottom edge of the book block in dark brown ink; old shelfmark “99” on the spine.
0 references
On the last page (f.74v), the catchword “Incipit liber” referring to another text formerly present at the end of the book.
0 references
Provenance: On f. 1, the lower right margin cut away to remove a 16th century note of a former owner, leaving only its beginning, “Iste liber fuit quondam domini Sal//.”
0 references
Provenance: On front pastedown, bookplate of Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947); printed label from the NY Academy of Medicine with acquisition date of this manuscript in 1928; on f. 1v, stamp of the NY Academy of Medicine, date and acquisition number.
0 references
Gatherings 1-5 of ten leaves each, gatherings 6-7 of twelve leaves each, with quire (as letter) and leaf (as number) signatures in the first half of each quire: a-e^1-5^, f-g^1-6^. Catchwords at the end of the gatherings. Guide letters (f.55); text of the rubrics in the margins.
0 references
Probably copied before the canonization date in 1482 of St. Bonaventure who is called here in the rubric “frater Bonaventura.”
0 references
Spelling mistakes that double the letter “l” (as occur here) are frequent in northwestern Italy, along the valley of the Po river. On the last page (f.74v), the catchword “Incipit liber” referring to another text formerly present at the end of the book.
0 references
Bonaventure, Opera omnia, in 10 volumes (Ad Claras Aquas [Quaracchi] ex typographia Collegii s. Bonaventurae, 1882-1901), here his Collationes de decem praeceptis, vol. 5:507-532. The scribe of this manuscript noted in the margins the authors cited by Bonaventure in his text.
0 references
Bonaventure, Opera omnia, in 10 volumes (Ad Claras Aquas [Quaracchi] ex typographia Collegii s. Bonaventurae, 1882-1901), here his Lignum vitae, vol. 8:68-86.
0 references
Bonaventure, additions to his Lignum vitae, printed under the title, “LXXII operationes Iesu Christi,” here mainly as given in vol. 8:86-87.
0 references
For parts of this text, see: Sebastiano Ammiani [1503-1568], Christiana institutio virtutum et vitiorum (Lyons: Compagnon & Taillandier, 1669). Note that although the script in the manuscript is a very formal and well-formed gothic, it is very highly abbreviated as if these were simply notes for someone writing a sermon.
0 references
Parts of the masses for summer Sundays (21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Sundays after Pentecost)
0 references
26 August 2024
0 references
26 August 2024
0 references