Medicina cordis
- Description
- Spiritual work in three parts. Each part (libro) has a separate index of constituent chapters at the beginning. The work ends with some verses (f. 125r-127r), though these might properly belong only to the second and third parts of the work. Beginning of the index to the first part is missing, due to the loss of a folio before f. 1. End of chapter xviii and beginning of chapter xix of the first part are missing, due to the loss of a folio cut out between f. 35-36. Chapter xii of the second part (cf. f. 46r) was omitted and placed at the end of the codex by the scribe (f. 127r-130v).
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Italian
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1400
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- Discipline
- Catholic Church
- Discipline
- Catholic Church -- Doctrines
- Devotional literature, Italian -- Early works to 1800
- Spirituality -- Catholic Church
- Devotional literature, Italian
- Extent
- 130 leaves : parchment ; 212 x 148 (132 x 97) mm bound to 224 x 157 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from explicit (f. 127r). This might be the overall title for the entire work, or just the collective title for the second and third parts. This explicit is in Latin, whereas the others in the work are in Italian.
- Title of first part (explicit, f. 45r): Libro della disciplina delli spirituali.
- Incipit of first part (f. 1v): Quanto a dio displacia lo peccato dela tepidita ...
- Title of third part (explicit, f. 124v): Libro dela paciencia loquale si chiama medicina del core. This title might apply collectively to both the second and third parts; there is no explicit given for the second part, possibly because its last chapter was omitted and placed at the end of the codex by the scribe.
- Note preceding the chapter added at the end reads: Sequens capitulum debet stare in fine primi libri [?] huius voluminis. Either the scribe was mistaken in his counting of the books; or he was regarding the second and third parts of this work as a single volume, such that the second and third parts of the work constitute the first and second books of this volume.
- Foliation: Parchment, 130; [1-130]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. At least one folio missing before f. 1. One leaf cut out between f. 35-36. One leaf possibly cut out after f. 130, though this appears to have involved no loss of text.
- Layout: Written in 33 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
- Script: Written in a 15th-century humanistic book script by a single hand.
- Decoration: Red or blue initials with contrasting penwork ornamentation throughout; some headings in red; capitals touched with yellow.
- Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Cover badly damaged by worms and wear. Leather over spine peeling off and partly missing. Front pastedown missing, back pastedown (paper) completely detached. Various stains and smudges.
- Italian, with a few headings, etc. in Latin.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3222r60v
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 311
- Provenance
- Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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