Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Italy.
Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
Ordo Professionis (Benedictine), 1541
Item
Identifier: MS 55
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Order of Profession created in Verona in 1541. These types of manuscripts provide rubrics (instructions) and texts for those in the religious profession. This specific manuscript can be classified as Benedictine.The manuscript starts with Incipit ordo professionis fiende per monacham in manu sacerdotis on f.1r. It continues Anno domini .mo...
Dates:
1541
Practica cum antidotario, by Johannes Serapion, 13th-14th century
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Identifier: MS 170
Contents
MS 170 is the Practica sive breviarium, a Latin translation from the 12th century by Gerard of Cremona. Gerard translated one of the two medical texts by 9th-century Christian physician, Johannes Serapion (also known as Yahya ibn Sarafyun, and Serapion the Elder). Little is known about Serapion, other than that he lived during the second half of the 9th century, and wrote medical treatises in Syriac. Through Gerard's Latin translation, which made the text...
Dates:
13th-14th century
Prayer Book and Book of Hours, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 49
Contents
The manuscript is a Prayer Book and Book of Hours from the late 15th century that originated in Italy.The Penitential Psalms start on f.1r.The Litany starts on f.12r.The Prayers start on f.22v. These include the Ave Maria, Pater Noster, Credo, and Salve...
Dates:
late 15th century
Psalter and Hymnarium (Benedictine), late 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 60
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Psalter and Hymnarium from the late 14th century. An hymnarium is a liturgical book that contains hymns and is a fixed part of the liturgy. This manuscript is also probably Benedictine.The Benedictine Psalter, with noted Anthems and Hymns, and Chapters with their Versicles and Responds, are arranged in the following order:Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Prime; Matins and Lauds for the whole week start on...
Dates:
late 14th century
Psalter with Anthems (Roman Use), early 16th century
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Identifier: MS 61
Contents
This manuscript contains a psalter of Roman Use with anthems, written in Latin in the early 16th century, and of Italian origin. The book is of a considerable size and its binding is particularly interesting, as it is a decorated with brass pins, studs, and other different shapes. Some of the hymns at the beginning and at the end are incomplete. It has several vellum page markers for its different sections.ContentsHymns (Roman...
Dates:
early 16th century
Robert Grosseteste's Latin translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 67
Contents
Manuscript of Robert Grosseteste's Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs produced in Italy in the 15th century. Robert Grosseteste was bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253. He is better known for his scientific treatises in Latin and French. The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs is a translation into Latin from the original apocryphal Greek text. According to Matthew Paris (Hist. Maj.,sub. anno 1242,...
Dates:
15th century
Satires by Juvenal, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 199
Contents
Juvenal was an early second-century AD Roman poet. Although little else is known about his life, he is credited with having written sixteen satires. When first published, the satires were divided into five books, and in them Juvenal criticised the beliefs and morals of his contemporaries. Juvenal addresses many of the concerns in second-century Rome in his poems, including the tensions between non-Roman social climbers and Roman citizens, the preservation of existing social class, and the...
Dates:
late 15th century
Scholia by pseudo-Acro, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 200
Contents
MS 200 contains a set of commentaries on works by the first-century BC Roman poet, Horace. This set of commentaries is known as the Scholia and it is attributed to pseudo-Acro. Acro, or Helenius Acron was a third-century AD Roman commentator who wrote on the works of Terence and Horace. The commentary ("Scholia") found in MS 200 was not attributed to Acro before the fifteenth century, so his authorship is...
Dates:
15th century
Sermons and other theological material, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 214
Contents
Writing
This is a fragment (8 folios) of a 14th century manuscript that contains various short sermons and other theological material.
Writing
The script is French or Italian.
Dates:
14th century
Summa Confessionalis by Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, 1 September 1472
Item
Identifier: MS 77
Contents
This book is usually known as Summa Confessionalis, Summula de Confessionis or simply Confessionale. It is a guidebook for confessors in the Catholic doctrine written by Antoninus of Florence (1389–1459), a Dominican friar, archbishop of Florence, and considered Saint in the Catholic Church. There are different versions of the book. It was a compilation of several treatises by Antoninus but it...
Dates:
1 September 1472