Rule of the Third Order of Franciscans : in Italian and Latin

Item Information

Title:
Rule of the Third Order of Franciscans : in Italian and Latin
Contributor:
Third Order Regular of St. Francis
Date:
[ca. 1450]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Inscriptions
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Third Order Regular of St. Francis--Early works to 1800
Third Order Regular of St. Francis--Manuscripts
Places:
Italy > Tuscany (region) > Siena (province) > Poggibonsi
Extent:
77 leaves : parchment ; 190 x 135 (143 x 101) mm bound to 21 cm, in box 23 cm
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Place of origin:
Poggibonsi, Italy
Language:
Italian
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-10v: Rule of the Third Order, in Italian: In nomine domini nostri ihesu Christi. In comincia La regola degli frati et suore de penitentia del terco ordine di Sancto Francesco.
2. fol. 10v-13v: Profession: Questa e la forma et il modo di fare professione ...
3. fol. 13v-40v: Rituale, with a list of the Saints of the Third Order.
4. fol. 41-55v: Office of the Dead, Franciscan use.
5. fol. 55v-60v: Passion according to St. Matthew.
6. fol. 61-69v: Prayers of St. Jerome, in Italian: Oratione di sancto hyeronimo.
7. fol. 69-70: Form of Papal Absolution.
8. fol. 70-77v: Penitential Psalms and litany. Explicit: ... Et fidelium anime per misericordiam dei requiescant in pace R. Amen.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Tuscany, probably at the abbey in Poggibonzi for the use of the Franciscans there.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: 18th-century inscription, fol. 1r: "Della libraria di S. Francesco presso Villafranca," presumably referring to the Franciscan community in the nearby town of Villafranca di Lunigiana.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in 1938.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 213
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...heretico o sospecto...
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (paper) + 77 + iii (paper) ; 1-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰⁻³ (final three leaves apparently cancelled) ; decorative catchwords in the center lower margin of the final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, first 1 or 2 leaves of each quire.
Layout: 1 column, 25 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in a southern gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials throughout alternating red and blue; 5-line blue and white initial with red filigree, fol. 1.
Binding: 17th-century limp vellum with 2 alum-tawed ties, paper pastedowns and flyleaves, watermark of scales in a circle; 17th-century title on spine: "REGOLA/ del/ TERZO ORDINE/ DI/ SANCTO FRANCE/SCO" and "COD. MEM[BR]/SAEC...." [the remainder faded]. In tan cloth-covered clamshell box.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XV (1940): 406-7 (pasted inside rear cover).
Notes (language):
In Italian and Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018684
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.119
MS Fr.96.F84t (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846533