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:
Summa contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas, 1 September 1466
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Identifier: MS 75
Contents
15th century Italian manuscript of Thomas Aquinas's Summa contra Gentiles, also known as Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra Errores infidelium, among other names, originally written during circa 1259-1265. A theological treatise devoted to explaining core beliefs of the Catholic faith to infidels, and to providing a philosophical defense for arguments against the doctrine. This copy was done in Vigevano, Italy, by the...
Dates:
1 September 1466
Summa summarum sive Speculum iuris canonici, by William of Pagula, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 145
Contents
MS 145 contains one of only thirteen known extant copies of a 14th-century text by William of Pagula [Paull], a theologian, writer, and English parish priest. This massive text containing five books is a manual on canon law and theology, composed sometime in or around 1318-22. The text in nearly complete in MS 145, although the final book, Liber v wants three chapters.f. 1r: Prologue, beginning with the words Incipit Prologus. Ad...
Dates:
14th century
Tractatus in arte cirurgiae, Antonio de Cermisono, second half of the 15th century
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Identifier: MS 314
Contents
This is a manuscript containing the text "Tractatus in arte cirurgiae" by Antonio Cermisone, written in Northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century. It features recipes for the cure of diseases of the head and other parts of the body in descending order, in 170 numbered chapters. It includes coloured illustrations in the margins.
For a full description of the manuscript, including writing and provenance, see the bibiography note in "Additional description".
Dates:
second half of the 15th century
Works by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 191
Contents
MS 191 contains two texts by the fifteenth-century Italian, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II from 1458-1464). The volume is divided into two parts, the first containing letters by Piccolimini, and the second, the text De miseria curialium. These will be described separately, under 'MS 191/ff. 1-97' and 'MS 191/ff. 99-115'. Writing A fine, uniform minuscule, written on fine vellum, with wide margins....
Dates:
late 15th century