Liber de amore et dilectione dei ... [etc.]
- Description
- Collection of works by Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis with dates of their composition in the explicit or incipit of each, plus a poem by Petrus Damianus on the final folio.
- Creator
- Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century
- Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- sermons
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Manuscripts, Latin
- Date
- 1350
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Consolation -- Early works to 1800
- Consolation
- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
- Rhetoric
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800
- Christian life
- Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800
- Christian ethics
- Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Extent
- 70 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 256 x 197 (193 x 136) mm bound to 270 x 204 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Table of contents: 1. f.2r-7r: Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi [1255]. -- 2. f.7r-24v: Liber consolationis et consilii [1246]. -- 3. f.24v-58r: Liber de amore et dilectione dei [1238]. -- 4. f.58r-70r: Five sermons [the first dated 6 December 1263, f. 56r]. -- 5. f.70r-v: De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum / [Peter Damian].
- Title from title of predominant work; titles for individual works taken from 15th-century index (f. 1), which also includes a list of headings for the first three works of Albertano.
- Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 70 + ii (modern paper); [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 2 columns of 43 lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on f. 1.
- Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand.
- Decoration: Historiated initial depicting a knight with shield, in green, pink, purple, red, yellow and gold, with a botanical border, probably 15th-century and German, painted over earlier illumination (f. 2r). Rubricated, with capitals in red and blue, decorated 2-line and 4-line initials in red and blue with contrasting penwork ornamentation and decorated borders at the left edge of most columns throughout the text.
- Binding: 19th-century stamped calf, front hinge split.
- Sermons begin on f. 58r, 60v, 63r, 65v, and 68v.
- Origin: Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Texts attributed to Albertanus Causidicus Brixiensis de Sancta Agatha (f. 2r, 7r, 24v, 58r).
- Attribution to Peter Damian from Zacour-Hirsch, taken from bookseller's description, with the title Rhythmos ad diversos mundi status; this work often appears in collections of Albertano da Brescia and is sometimes attributed to him as well.
- Final folio has been damaged, lower right corner; repair obscures some of the text. Several other leaves are splitting along the edge.
- Latin.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qn5zc1z
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 744
- Provenance
- Sold by Laurence Witten, 1958.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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