A collection of mainly Franciscan authors, composed of seven codicological units

Title

A collection of mainly Franciscan authors, composed of seven codicological units

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 52

Place of origin

Italian

German (south west?)

Date

14th century, middle or second half

14th century

Language

Latin

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment (quire 16 mainly paper)

Physical extent

ii (modern paper) + ii (parchment fragment) + 205 + ii (modern paper) leaves

Decoration

Space left for initials, not executed.

Spaces left for miniatures in art. 12 (fols. 69r–75r), not executed.

Binding

Soranzo binding. Sewn on four bands laced into pulpboard covered with quarter speckled brown tanned calf and plain undecorated parchment; the spine with gilt filets and a red leather title-piece lettered in gilt capitals S. Augustinus de | cogni veræ vitæ | mag(ist)ri Barth. Bon | de Luce et alior. | Op(uscu)la Cod: membr.; the edges of the leaves speckled blue.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.

Provenance

Canons regular of San Bartolomeo, Vicenza, 15th century: inscribed Est monasterii Sancti Bartholomei iuxta burgum Pusterlae (fol. 199v), partially effaced with ink, presumably by the next owners:

Canons regular of Santa Maria della Carità, Venice: inscribed, Statio huius libri est in quarta sede a latere canalis. Iste liber est monasterii caritatis (fol. 199v; 15th century). This house was located beside the Grand Canal in Venice. Similar inscriptions in MS. Canon. Misc. 573; MS. Lat. th. d. 28; and Aberdeen, University Library, MS 242 (Aberdeen, University Library, MS 106 has a linked provenance).

Jacopo Soranzo (1686–1761), of Venice; his binding, much of whose library was acquired by:

Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727–1805); Venetian Jesuit and bibliophile; bequeathed to his brother:

Giuseppe Canonici (d. 1807); on whose death to their nephew:

Giovanni Perisinotti (fl. c. 1807–17), from whom over 2,000 books were:

Title

Miscellaneous

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 52

Summary

Honorius Augustodunensis (Ps.-Augustine), De cognitione uerae uitae

Ps.-Augustine, De spiritu et anima

Rudolf von Biberach (Ps.-Bonaventure), De septem donis spiritus sancti

Religious treatises, notes and extracts

Rudolf von Biberach (Ps.-Bonaventure), De septem itineribus aeternitatis

Conrad Holtnicker, Speculum beatae Mariae uirginis

Bartholomaeus Bononiensis, De luce

John Russell (c. 1300), Commentary on the Song of Songs

Thomas Gallus, Commentary on the Song of Songs

Richard of St.-Victor, Benjamin minor

Ps.-Bonaventure, De septem gradibus contemplationis

Hugh of St.-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae

Aegidius Romanus, Commentary on the Song of Songs

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume