Devotional prayers : in Italian

Item Information

Title:
Devotional prayers : in Italian
Title (alt.):
Oratio devotissima
Former owner:
Marcela, Gabriela, active 15th century
Former owner:
Bochini, Alvise, active 17th century
Former owner:
Andrea S., active 17th century
Auctioneer:
Bloomsbury Auctions (Firm)
Former owner:
Enluminures (Firm)
Date:
[1475?–1499?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Gothic scripts
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
14 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 161 x 106 (approximately 119 x 84) mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3j335p27b
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Italian
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1r-1v: blank, but ruled. With later ownership inscriptions (see provenance note)
2. fol. 2-7r: incipit: Oratione devotissima ad excitare la contricione de core (O Signore Iesu Christo: dinanci al conspecto tuo io confesso contra me la iniusticia mia ... quale vivi in eterno. Amen )
3. fol. 7r-10r: incipit: Oratione devotissima per dimandare remissione de suoi peccati et emendatione de quelli: et per li proximi suoi (Fa misericordia meco, o benigno et pientissimo signore dio ... me In eterno faci triumfare: lo quale vivi et regni dio omnipotente: In secula seculorum. Amen)
4. fol. 10r-12v: incipit: Oratione devotissima a dimandare gratia de fugire li peccati et Imitare le virtu (O Signore dio mio: concede gratia al mio core, di te desiderare: et te desiderando, te circhare ... et havere continua sete et desiderio dela celeste patria gloriosa. Amen. Finis)
5. fol. 13r-13v: blank, but ruled. "Kyrie eleison" and a prayer to the Virgin (beginning on 12v) added in the sixteenth or seventeenth century; ownership inscription ("Andrea S.") on fol. 13r; alphabet exercises on fol. 13r-13v.
Notes:
Ms codex.
Title devised by cataloger; catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
Origin: Copied in Central Italy, circa 1475-1499, for a young young woman -- possibly the "Gabriela Marcela," whose erased name is still visible on fol. 1. The supplicant identifies herself as a girl, "filiola" (fol. 2, line 6), and all adjectives referring to the person praying use feminine forms. The language of the text is that used in Central Italy -- for example, the definite article "lo" instead of "el", as well as certain words, such as "siagurata."
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: The name "Gabriela Marcela" erased, but still visible on fol. 1. Later owned by one Alvise Bochini of Venice, who inscribed his name on fol. 1v "Aluise Bochini", and on fol. 1 (now nearly erased) "ALVISE BOCHINI VENEZIA 12 APRILE." Possibly identifiable as Alvise du Bois, member of a prominent Netherlandish trading family; resided in Venice from 1599 to 1638. The inscription "Andrea S" on fol. 13, written in the same style as "Aluise Bochini" on fol. 1v, records perhaps the name of his child. Printed dealer's description in French (no. 6 from a catalog) on front pastedown.Sold by Bloomsbury/Dreweatts on July 2, 2019 (lot 89) to Les Enluminures, Paris.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Paris, in June, 2020.
Purchase; Les Enluminures, Paris; 2020; 2020.37.
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 14 + i ; i⁸ ii⁶ ; modern pencil foliation in upper right margin of each recto, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 18 lines, ruled in brown ink.
Script: Written in a southern textualis in brown ink, rubrics and capital swashes in red.
Decoration: Medallion with a grinning skull in a starry landscape surrounded by gold bezants in the lower margin of fol. 2. Three two-line initials illuminated on red, blue, and green grounds, the first of which (fol. 2) is decorated with vines and bezants.
Binding: Bound in dark brown, ca. 16th-/17th-century goatskin panelled in blind, blind-stamped arabesque centerpieces, with gold-tooled leaves in each corner; holes from silk ties (no longer present) at each edge. Modern endpapers. Ca. 15th-century (Italian?) manuscript waste rear flyleaf.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 260731
Notes (language):
In Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018277
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.280
Barcode:
39999097230249