Regula et catalogus fratrum et sororum congregationis S. Bernardini Senensis : in Latin and Italian

Item Information

Title:
Regula et catalogus fratrum et sororum congregationis S. Bernardini Senensis : in Latin and Italian
Description:
Alphabetical register of men and women of the "Compagnia de San Bernardim" i.e. (d. 1444) the Observant Franciscans.
Contributor:
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444
Former owner:
Ranschburg, Otto
Date:
[1454]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Wooden boards
Catches
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444--Portraits
Franciscans--Early works to 1800
Franciscans--Rules--Early works to 1800
Franciscans--Directories--Early works to 1800
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444
Places:
Italy > Emilian (region) > Bologna (province) > Bologna
Extent:
56 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 305 x 214 (201 x 145) mm bound to 33 cm, in box 36 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Bologna, Italy]
Language:
Latin
Italian
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-4: [Regula ordinis S. Bernhardini] Salvatoris nostri invocato nomine...
2. fol. 4v: blank.
3. fol. 5-31v: Homini dela compagnia de san Bernardini/ Antonio de gasparo...
4. fol. 32-54: Donne della compagnia de misere sam bernardino/ Antonia de stavano...
5. fol. 54v-55: memorial list, 17th century.
6. fol. 55v-56v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Bologna after 1454 (the establishment of the Bernardine order),
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: With additions and signatures added through the year 1621. The first few names on each leaf are written in the rounded gothic hand of Santis Bon Cordis (see fol. 1v, line 6), apparently recopying the original register, leaves of which are now serving as flyleaves and pastedowns. Various lot numbers inside front and back cover.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Bought by BPL in 1949 from Otto Ranschburg.
Notes (date):
Not before 1454.
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
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...che facia alcuna
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 56 + 1 ; 1-5¹⁰ 6¹⁰⁻⁴ (fol. 51-54 are singletons lacking their conjugates, fol. 55/56 is a conjugate bifolium) ; modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, numbers final flyleaf "57".
Layout: Single column, 34 lines (ruled, not entirely filled). Writing lines in blind or light brown ink.
Script: Original entries in a southern gothic textualis libraria (rotunda) by a single scribe, additional entries by individual signatories in various cursives and bookhands, into the 17th century.
Decoration: Capitals at head of each section alternating red and blue, paragraph marks at beginning of each line alternating red and blue, most lines left unfilled. Opening 12-line historiated initial in gold and colors on fol. 1 of St. Bernardine holding a book in his left hand and, in his right, his trademark, a disk at the end of a stick on which was depicted the sun (the icon he actually carried with him as he preached also included the monogram IHS, not visible here).
Binding: 15th-century blind-stamped and tooled sheep/goat over wooden boards, lacking clasps and two upper bosses on front cover, one hasp lacking on back cover, other bosses and hasps preserved, rebacked.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Ellen M. Oldham, "The Register of the Company of St. Bernardine," BPLQ II (1950): 281-284.
Notes (language):
In Latin and Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018678
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.111
MS 1539 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789452