Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology

Description

Title: Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500].
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on of a large personal collection of stray notes and excerpts, mostly in Latin under strong influence of Italian dialect, rarely in Italian, dealing especially and in great detail with confession and penance, interrogations by the confessor, the sacraments, sins and vices, the duties of the priest, etc. Quotations from Ambrose, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, the Bible, Cicero, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, and others. There is a particular interest in magic and heathen practises. See further, catalog description
Description: Script: copied in Humanistica or Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva, probably by a single hand, at various moments and in various degrees of rapidity. The display script is large Humanistica Textualis or large Southern Gothica Texualis.
In Latin.
Provenance: This manuscript was composed by a priest of the Costanza family for his personal use. Lot 249 in an English auction sale catalogue. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. I + 156 : 205 x 85 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Miscellanea, mainly about moral theology. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.