De claustro animae (DS28552) (Q108217)

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De claustro animae (DS28552)
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      title as recorded
      De claustro animae
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      De claustro animae
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      Allegory
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      Allegory
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      Monasticism and religious orders--Spirituality
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      Monasticism and religious orders
      Spirituality
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      Monasticism and religious orders--Architecture
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      Monasticism and religious orders
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      physical description
      Extent: fols. 132; parchment; 276 x 187 (190 x 124) mm bound to 283 x 191 mm
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      note
      Layout: 2 columns, 28-29 lines
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      Script: Protogothic bookhand
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      Decoration: Two five-line penwork flourished initials (ff. 1 and 2), red rubrics, 2- to 3-line red initials, some with pen flourishing.
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      Binding: Quarter bound in nineteenth-century brown marbled paper and tan cloth over pasteboard.
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      Handwritten lettering on spine: "119 / Hugonis De Floriano / Tractatus de claustro corporis et animae / Pergamena / Secolo XIV."
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      Parchment of varying quality with different leaf sizes, occasional orginal holes, and offcuts. Early modern foliation in pen in top outer corner recto. Horizontal catchwords in lower inner margins, signed in roman numerals in the central lower margin on the last leaf of each quire except quire seven.
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      Small guards on ff. 9 and 128. Ruled lightly in lead with the top two horizontal rules full across on some folios, full-length vertical bounding lines, prickings in outer margins still visible on most leves. Minor staining and worming generally not affecting the text. Minor damage and scuffing to upper and lower boards along the dges, some minor wear to the spine.
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      Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures, 2021
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      Belonged to the Dominicans in Venice early in its history:
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      a late-thirteenth or early fourteenth-century ownership inscription is on f. 132v: "Hic liber est armarii fratrum predicatorum de Venecia <quondam?> fuit fratris/ [followed by an erasure; continues over the erasure in a contemporary hand] cuius auctor fuit hugo de folieto est de clustro anime / Hic liber debet esse in septimal bancha ex parte ecclesie."
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      It may ahve been one of the four copies of Hugh of Fouilly's De claustro animae listed as part of the library collection of San Giovanni e Paolo, the principal Dominican church in Venice, in the 1650 catalogue of public and private manuscripts in Venetian libraries by Jacobi Philippi Tomasini (Tomasini, 1650, p. 29).
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      Marginal notation in an early modern hand in the bottom middle center of f. 1: "Editus a Magistro Hugone de Floriano." Almost certainly in the collection of Guglielmo de Libri (1803-1869); see Libri sale, Sotheby's, March 28, 1859, lot 505. Clipping from a subsequent English sale, inside front cover.
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      The manuscript was acquired by Rev. Patrick Brady of the Diocese of New York (d. 1894). Upon his death in 1894, his library was donated in its entirety to St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie (Yonkers), New York; their library stamp is on f. 1.
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      Modern owners' and dealers' notes includee: in ink, front flyleaf "$2-1," which has been later crossed out in pencil, under which is written "1-5"; back flyleaf, in pencil, price codes or other notations in two hands.
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      This manuscript is an addition to a group of Northern Italian copies of the De claustro animae from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, identified by Franco Negri as sharing the same chapter divisions (Negri, 2011, p. 366).
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      Ff. 130-131v, incipit: "Et sit transitus de iudea ad gentes ... faciem autem meam non videbis"; incipit "Sermo comotionis et diuitie habens equum uotum perseueratie ... Relinquitur ergo alueus ab aqua iudeus a gratia": these two short texts, lacking rubrics, are in the hand of the main scribe;
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      some passages are found in the anonymous Liber Sententiarum, Migne, Patrologia Latina, volume 183, col. 1151-1154.
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      Previous shelfmark: De claustro animae
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      date added
      23 September 2025
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      date last updated
      23 September 2025
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