Quadragesimale de casibus : manuscript

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Collection MS-1992-020: Quadragesimale de casibus : manuscript

Dates

Creation: between 1400-1499

Scope and Contents

Quadragesimale, together with other sermons and remarks on the lives of saints, by Bartholomew Rinonico, written in 2 columns in semi-gothic script, with pen-flourished initials in red, on paper, except for leaves 1 and 8 which are parchment. Marginal and interleaved additions written in a later, informal cursive script. Contemporary manuscript foliation at upper right. Leaves 1-55: Lives of various saints. Leaves 55v-56v: Laude in Italian verse. Leaves 57r-160v: Quadragesimale de Casibus. Leaves 160v-163r: Sermons. Leaves 163v-164v: Sermons or added commentary, written in an informal cursive script. Leaves 165-166: In festo assumptionis. Leaves 167-172: Sermons or added commentary, written an informal cursive script.

Title from incipit (leaf 57r): Incipit Quadragesimale de casibus editu[m] p[er] reverendum patre[m] et Mag[istru]m Fratre[m] Bartholomeu[m] de Pisis.

Place of production (Italy?) and name of scribe from explicit (leaf 160v): Explicit Quadragesimale de casibus ... Fr[ater] Xforo de Aggrigento me scripssit.

Manuscript table of contents on binder's flyleaf, written in later cursive script: |t Nonnulla de Beato Antonio -- |t et de Sancto Francisco -- |t Et de Beato Gerardo -- |t In translatione S. Antonii -- |t Dominica post Epiphaniam -- |t In festo S. Agathae Virg. -- |t Dominica 1. Quadragesimale.

Creator

Bartholomew, of Pisa (Person)

Language of Materials

Latin

Restrictions on access

Open for research.

Restrictions on use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Biographical note

Italian Franciscan. Bartholomew Rinonico is best known as the author of De Conformitate Vitae B. P. Francisco ad Vitam Domini Nostri Jesu Christi. He is frequently confused with Bartholomew of San Concordio (1262-1347) and with Bartholomew Albizzi (-1361), all three being known as Bartholomew of Pisa.

Extent

1 Volumes (172 leaves) : Parchment, paper. ; 15 x 11 cm

Additional Description

Abstract

Provenance

Because the current accessioning system was not used until January 1986, it is not possible to know exactly the dates of acquisition of materials received before that time.

Brief printed description from unidentified bookseller pasted to inside front cover. Former owner's name "Irene Gilbert[?]" in pencil on inside front cover. A manuscript codex matching this description appears for sale in the 1857 inventory of bookseller S. Comnum; see Intelligenz-Blatt zum Serapeum, no. 18, 30 September, 1857.

Identified as Coffman return.

Materials Specific Details

Bound in later half leather; with three leaves of liturgical manuscript waste parchment, written in a Gothic rotunda bookhand, bound at front and rear, likely remnants of original binding.