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Le uie de Sion pia[n]gono

Item Information

Title:
Le uie de Sion pia[n]gono
Title (alt.):
Vie de Sion piangono
Viae Sion lugent
Viae Syon lugent
Mistica theologia del divino amore
Title (uniform):
De mystica theologia. Italian
Author:
Hugh, of Balma, active 13th century
Translator:
Domenico, da Monticchiello
Former owner:
Segre Amar, Sion, 1910-
Former owner:
Enluminures (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[1442]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Gothic scripts
Vellum bindings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Prayer--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
Contemplation--Early works to 1800
Spiritual life--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
Places:
Italy
Extent:
80 leaves : paper ; 220 x 140 (155 x 100) mm bound to 23 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r0781472
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Italian
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-80v [Incipit] "Le vie de Sion piagono per che non e chi venga al solenne amore avegnache le predette parole dicesse Ieremia profeta piangendo la presura del popolo suo ... E poi per uengono all illuminativa , e cosi procedono fino alla unitiva, e cosi a grado a grado l'anima per divina gratia pervenera allo levamento dello affecto amoroso, e meritera diricevere la gloria alla quale tutti ci conduca dio el quale vive e regna in secula seculorum. Amen."
2. fol. 80v [Scribal colophon] Finissce la mistica theologia del divino amore tracta in questo modo da uno venerabile maestro frate dell ordine di certosa 1442 del mese d'ottob.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from opening line of text; date from colophon; place of production conjectured based on contents.
Origin: Copied in Italy and completed in October 1442 (see contents note for colophon).
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Front flyleaf with sticker "133". Offered at Sotheby's (London, 9 July 1973, lot 36) to Sion Segre Amar, with his label on rear pastedown: "SSA -- Nasce a guisa di rampollo a pie del vero il dubbio 111". Offered again at Sotheby's (London, 1 December 1998, lot 87) to a private collector. Offered again at Sotheby's (London, 3 July 2018, lot 20).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures in April, 2023.
Purchase; Les Enluminures; 20230418; 2023.20.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 80 + fol. i (modern paper) ; i¹⁰ ii-vi¹² vii¹⁰ ; modern pencil foliation in upper-right margins.
Layout: Ruled in lead point, with vertical and horizontal bounding lines, 24 to 33 lines per page.
Script: Written in black ink in a gothic semitextualis; headings in red ink in a gothic textualis.
Decoration: Three-line initials on first several pages rubricated in red; initials otherwise with guide letters, but unrubricated.
Binding: Bound in modern rigid vellum.
Notes (language):
In Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018772
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.289
Barcode:
39999092874682