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Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology
Title
Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology.
Created
Italy, [between 1400 and 1500].
Physical Description
ff. I + 156 : paper ; 205 x 85 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: copied in Humanistica or Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva, probably by a single hand, at various moments and in various degrees of rapidity. The display script is large Humanistica Textualis or large Southern Gothica Texualis.
In Latin.
Provenance
This manuscript was composed by a priest of the Costanza family for his personal use. Lot 249 in an English auction sale catalogue. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on of a large personal collection of stray notes and excerpts, mostly in Latin under strong influence of Italian dialect, rarely in Italian, dealing especially and in great detail with confession and penance, interrogations by the confessor, the sacraments, sins and vices, the duties of the priest, etc. Quotations from Ambrose, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, the Bible, Cicero, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, and others. There is a particular interest in magic and heathen practises. See further, catalog description.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2011
References
Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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