Franciscan miscellany : in Latin with some Italian

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Title:
Franciscan miscellany : in Latin with some Italian
Title (alt.):
Legenda maior S. Francisci
Description:
A compilation of miscellaneous contents, in Latin and Italian. Fol. 69-130v comprises hymns and poems, many of which are by Franciscan poet Jacopone da Todi (d. 1306). This section is misbound; the correct order, with reference current folio numbers, should be as follows: 101-130, [14 leaves lacking], 93-100, 85-92, 69-84. In the contents list for this bibliographic record, the original foliation number is given in brackets, with the incipits of the missing 14 leaves supplied from the16th-century index on fol. 46-47v. When possible, reference is given to corresponding entry in LIO, i.e., L. Leonardo and G. Marrani, Repertorio della Lirica Italiana delle Origini (Florence, 2005).
Contributor:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Contributor:
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Author:
Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306
Former owner:
Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928
Former owner:
Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat
Date:
[ca. 1490]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Bookplates
humanistic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Italian poetry--Texts--Early works to 1800
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Franciscans--History--Early works to 1800
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
156 leaves : parchment and paper, ill. ; 153 x 110 (writing space varies, approx. 120 x 80) mm bound to 17 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3n207685c
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Venice?]
Language:
Latin
Italian
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-18: Expositio super regulam fratrum minorum, attributed to Umbertus of Pisa.
2. fol. 18v-20v: blank.
3. fol. 21-45: St. Bonaventure, Legenda maior beati Francisci.
4. fol. 45v: blank.
5. fol. 46-47v: index to fol. 69-130v, in Italian (added 16th century)
6. fol. 48-56: Sacrum commercium sancti francisci cum domina paupertate.
7. fol. 56v: readings: [D]icit dominus ad Adam/ de omni lingo paradise commodo.../...perlati sunt studeat adimplerer.
8. fol. 57-67v: extracts from the minor writings and letters of St. Francis.
9. fol. 68-68v: blank.
10. fol. 69 [61]: Dona del paradiso LIO 20134.
11. fol. 70 [62]: Non si tenga amatore.
12. fol. 70v [62]: O anima mia create gentile.
13. fol. 71 [63]: O peccatore che ta fidato.
14. fol. 72 [64]: Ali ochii corporali.
15. fol. 72v [64]: Signore per cortexia (Gaspara Stampa) LIO 41289.
16. fol. 73 [65]: Laudemo yhesu figiolo.
17. fol. 73v [65]: Percie che li homini LIO 17467 (?)
18. fol. 77 [69]: Cum desiderio vo cercando (Bianco da Siena), with music LIO 7500.
19. fol. 77v [69]: A lamore chi e venuto (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 196.
20. fol. 79 [70]: Non tardati peccatori (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 26119.
21. fol. 80 [71]: Madre tanto tato.
22. fol. 80v [71]: Dolce vergine maria LIO 11100.
23. fol. 81v [72]: O castitade.
24. fol. 82 [73]: Vita penosa (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 28252 (?)
25. fol. 84 [75]: Amor contrafacto (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 2496.
26. fol. 85 [53]: O novo canto (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 27616.
27. fol. 86 [54]: Insegnati me yhesu christo.
28. fol. 88 [56]: Canti gioyozi (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 4707.
29. fol. 88 [56]: Lamor chi e consumato.
30. fol. 88v [56]: Canti gioyosi.
31. fol. 89 [57]: Que fai anima predate (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 5287.
32. fol. 90 [58]: O mezo virtuoso.
33. fol. 90v [58]: Azai mi sforzo (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 3207.
34. fol. 91 [59]: Homo de ti mi lamento (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 28958.
35. fol. 91v [59]: Molto mi sum delongato.
36. fol. 92 [60]: O dolor amore chai monto.
37. fol. 92v [60]: Lamor lo sangue spande.
38. fol. 93 [45]: Tractatus subtilem quale in homini perfecto figurantur/ Lo mo chi po... (in verse)
39. fol. 96 [48]: A fra Iohanne de la Verna (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 168.
40. fol. 96 [48]: Or audite esta ballata.
41. fol. 98 [50]: O candida columba.
42. fol. 98v [50]: O yhesu dolor o in fino amore.
43. fol. 99 [51]: Liberta subiecta.
44. fol. 100 [52]: Sapeti voi novelle (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 37869.
45. fol. 101 [1]: O regina cortese (Giustinian or da Todi) LIO 27797 or 98.
46. fol. 101 [1]: O vergine piu cha femina.
47. fol. 102 [2]: Or chi hauera cordogio (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 29202.
48. fol. 102v [2]: Amor diletto amo perché (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 2062.
49. fol. 103v [3]: Piangi dolente anima (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 31201.
50. fol. 104 [4]: Homo chi vol parlare (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 28957.
51. fol. 104v [4]: Voria trovare chi ama.
52. fol. 104v [4]: O derrata guarda (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 26909.
53. fol. 105 [5]: Fugo la croce (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 14806.
54. fol. 105v [5]: Signor mio io vo languendo (Ugo Panziera) LIO 41262.
55. fol. 106 [6]: O alta imperatrior.
56. fol. 106v [6]: Alto zocorz de la humanita.
57. fol. 106v [6]: O Francisco povero (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 27204.
58. fol. 108 [8]: Povertade inamorata.
59. fol. 108 [8]: O amor di povertade (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 26507.
60. fol. 109 [9]: Lo mio cor clamante.
61. fol. 109v [9]: Voi chi haveti fame de lamore.
62. fol. 116 [16]: O consciencia mia.
63. fol. 116v [16]: Tropo perde il tempo chi non thama
64. fol. 119 [19]: O iubilo del core (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 27400.
65. fol. 119 [19]: O amore muto (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 26514.
66. fol. 119v [19]: Lamor lo cor zi vol regnarre (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 19429.
67. fol. 120v [20]: Senno mi pare.
68. fol. 121v [21]: Arbor amoris: a diagram of different degrees of love.
69. fol. 122 [22]: Uno arbore da dio (accompanying diagram on previous page)
70. fol. 123 [23]: O amor divino amore (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 26508 or 9.
71. fol. 124 [24]: O amor che mami.
72. fol. 124v [24]: Dilecto jhesu christo chi ben (Giovanni Colombini) LIO 10646.
73. fol. 125 [25]: Sposa che mi dimandi.
74. fol. 125v [25]: Yhesu dolor mio sposo.
75. fol. 126 [26]: Dilecto yhesu christo damor LIO 10645.
76. fol. 127 [27]: Si fortemente sum tracto (Ugo Panziera) LIO 40851.
77. fol. 128 [28]: Amor yhesu perche (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 2128.
78. fol. 128 [28]: Anima benedicta (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 2745.
79. fol. 128v [28]: Lamor a me venendo (Bianca da Siena) LIO 19439.
80. fol. 129 [29]: Chi mi zura credente.
81. fol. 129v [29]: Lo yhesu sguardo (Ugo Panziera) LIO 21863.
82. fol. 130 [30]: O yhesu fornaor ardente.
83. [31]: Yhesu facie lament.
84. [34]: Amor di cantade.
85. [37]: El dolce amatore.
86. [38]: O anima fidele.
87. [40]: O dolor amore che volesti.
88. [41]: Yhesu nostra speranza.
89. [42]: Ben moyro damore (Ugo Panziera) LIO 3987.
90. [42]: Laudamo lamor divino (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 21303.
91. [42]: O spechio eterno.
92. [43]: Benedecto zia lo iorno LIO 4354.
93. [43]: Nela digna stalla (Leonardo Giustinian) LIO 24672.
94. [44]: O papa bonifacio (Jacopone da Todi) LIO 27640 or 1.
95. fol. 131-156v: Constitutiones generales and Papal bulls concerning the Franciscan order.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century; some orthographic features, in particular the use of [-xia] for [-sia] at the end of a word, suggest a possible origin in Venice.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Early modern pencil notations inside front cover and on first flyleaf, #1014 on front cover and inner front pastedown. Sold by Ludwig Rosenthal to Franciscan scholar and biographer Paul Sabatier (1858-1928).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL from Sabatier's estate in 1930 along with several other manuscripts and his library of Francisciana, collectively known as the "Paul Sabatier Franciscan Collection" (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42807 and 198008). BPL plate inside front cover.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 925
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ... debus ecce omnis...
Collation: A mix of paper and parchment (fol. 46, 66, and quires 13-17 on paper, with watermarks (fol. 66, a rooster; quires 13-17, fowl similar to Briquet 12225 (Italy, late 15th century)); quires 11-12 on paper with parchment outer bifolium; all other leaves parchment) ; fol. i (modern paper?) + 56 + i (modern paper?) ; 1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁴⁺² 4-5⁸ 6⁸⁺¹ 7¹⁺¹ 8⁸⁺¹ 9⁸ 10⁴ 11-15⁸ 16¹⁰ 17¹² 18⁶ 19⁶⁺¹ 20¹⁰⁺². Folios 15, 16, 45-47, 56, 144, 155 and 156 are tipped-in singletons. Folios 46 and 47 were added in the sixteenth century, and fol. 66 and 67 are singletons pasted together at the gutter to form the central bifolium of quire 10. The quires of the poetry section (quires 11-17, that is, fol. 63-130) are misbound; the correct sequence of quires is 15, 16, 17, [lacking a quire of 14 leaves], 14, 13, 11, 12 ; some catchwords extant, lower margin of final verso of a few quires. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page, 16th-century foliation in arabic, upper right corner of the rectos of fol. 69-130, added before the leaves were misbound, uses "70" twice.
Layout: 1 or 2 columns, 40-43 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light red plummet. Two lines of music on fol. 77, heightened square notation, staff lines not visible.
Script: Written in several humanistic bookhands and cursives in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 10-line initial in colors on gold with green and blue acanthus into margins and gold balls with brown filigree, historiated with portrait of St. Francis (fol. 21); 10-line initials in similar scheme without historiation, fol. 22; 3- to 6-line spaces unfilled throughout. Arbor amoris in red on fol. 121v.
Binding: Limp vellum over pasteboard, later paper endleaves and pastedowns, 19th-century label remnants on spine.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "An Early Franciscan Breviary," More Books VII (1931): 327-340; Zoltan Haraszti, "A Library about St. Francis," More Books VII (1931): 275; L. Leonardo and G. Marrani, LIO - ITS/ Repertorio della Lirica Italiana delle Origini (Florence, 2005).
Notes (language):
In Latin and Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018657
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.40
MS Fr.96.F84 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846350