Rule of St. Clare : with commentaries and declarations by John of Capistrano and Nicholas of Cusa : in Italian and Latin

Item Information

Title:
Rule of St. Clare : with commentaries and declarations by John of Capistrano and Nicholas of Cusa : in Italian and Latin
Author:
Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253
Contributor:
John, of Capistrano, Saint, 1386-1456
Contributor:
Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464
Contributor:
Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447
Contributor:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Former owner:
Marie, de Albano
Former owner:
Marie Cleophe, de Sollario
Former owner:
Martini, J.
Former owner:
Griscom, Acton, 1891-1961
Former owner:
Gottschalk, Paul, 1880-1970
Former owner:
Lathrop C. Harper, Inc.
Date:
[1450–1500]
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:
Poor Clares--Early works to 1800
Places:
Italy
Extent:
74 leaves : parchment, paper ; 178 x 130 (130 x 94) mm bound to 19 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/jd477294n
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Italian
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-25: Rule of St. Clare, in Italian: In nomine domini. In comencia el prologo in la vita e regola de la suore povere de sancta clara.
2. fol. 25v-33: Privileges, in Italian: In comencia el privilege de philipo.
3. fol. 33v-34: John of Capistrano, declaration on the Rule of St. Clare, in Latin.
4. fol. 34-45v: John of Capistrano, Commentary on the Rule of St. Clare, in Latin.
5. fol. 45v-46v: John of Capistrano, Exhortation on the Rule of St. Clare, in Latin.
6. fol. 46v-56: Privileges: Valete iterum et orate...
7. fol. 56-59v: Nicholas of Cusa, Declaration on the Rule of St. Clare, in Italian.
8. fol. 60-60v: John of Capistrano, letter to one Sister Elizabeth, in Italian.
9. fol. 60v-71v: Pope Eugene IV, Declaration on the Rule of St. Clare, in Italian
10. fol. 71v-73: John of Capistrano, Exhortation on the Rule of St. Clare, in Italian:
11. fol. 73-74v: Dante, Paradiso 11:55-11:130 (the verses concerning St. Francis), in Italian.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century for the use of a community of Poor Clares.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: 17th-century inscription, fol. 1: "De usum sororis Marie de Albano et sororis Marie Cleophe de Sollario." Acquired by Acton Griscom (High Point, NJ) "from J. Martini through L. C. Harper", his no. 27 (see de Ricci, Census I:1166).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Paul Gottschalk in 1938
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 212-213
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...obedientia a Beato Francisco.
Collation: Parchment (fol. 1-56) and paper (fol. 57-74), fol. iii (paper) + 74 + iii (paper) ; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁴⁺¹ (fol. 25 tipped-in) 4¹⁰ 5-6⁶ 7⁶⁺³ (fol. 54-56 singletons) 8¹⁰ 9⁸ ; decorative catchwords, lower center or lower right corner of the final verso of most quires. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer recto of each leaf.
Layout: 2 columns, 34 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a southern textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 1- to 3-line red capitals throughout.
Binding: 16th-century(?) limp vellum, title handwritten on spine: "Regole del/le monache/ di / s. chiara" and "Cod. [ ]/ saec. [ ]"; paper pastedowns and flyleaves.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XV (1940): 406-7.
Notes (language):
In Italian and Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018683
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.118
FR.96.C54 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846525