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This book consists of an unpublished Italian devotional treatise, composed in question-and-answer form, entitled the Stella di Salute (Star of Salvation). The text's author, as stated in the introductory rubric (fol. 1r), is a Franciscan friar by the name of Santi de Bon Cor de Sutele. The text was completed, according to the rubric, on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1450. It is unclear whether the present copy is contemporary or slightly later in date. The colophon on fol. 205v states that the scribe's name is Faustino. The text begins with an illuminated first page containing a historiated initial S depicting a haloed bishop.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+205+ii; 163 x 114 mm bound to 174 x 123 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: i-xxv(8), xxvi(8-2) [third to last and second to last folios of quire 26 cancelled; otherwise regular]; Signatures: Signatures, mostly cropped, visible in lower-right-hand corners on versos; Catchwords: Regular catchwords, decorated with pen flourishes, bottom center verso at: 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v, 144v, 152v, 160v, 168v, 176v, 184v, 192v, 200v
One column of eighteen lines; written area: 100 x 85 mm
Gothic--rotunda; Scribe: Frater Faustino
One historiated initial with decorated border (fol. 1r); rubrication in red; pen flourishes throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
A manuscript with the same text is listed in Folnesics, Hans, Die illuminierten Handschriften in Dalmatien (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1917), p. 50, as being in the library of the State Italian College of Zadar, in modern-day Croatia (observation by Nicholas Herman, 02/2017)
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Florence?, Italy
Date of 25 February 1450 given in rubric on fol. 1r; 1450
Sixteenth-century brown morocco with stamped motifs
Italian
Bookplate of Luigi Cora, twentieth century; acquired in 1926 by the Free Library of Philadelphia (Pepper fund)
Florence?, Italy
Date of 25 February 1450 given in rubric on fol. 1r; 1450
Italian
Bookplate of Luigi Cora, twentieth century; acquired in 1926 by the Free Library of Philadelphia
This book consists of an unpublished Italian devotional treatise, composed in question-and-answer form, entitled the Stella di Salute (Star of Salvation). The text's author, as stated in the introductory rubric (fol. 1r), is a Franciscan friar by the name of Santi de Bon Cor de Sutele. The text was completed, according to the rubric, on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1450. It is unclear whether the present copy is contemporary or slightly later in date. The colophon on fol. 205v states that the scribe's name is Faustino. The text begins with an illuminated first page containing a historiated initial S depicting a haloed bishop.
A manuscript with the same text is listed in Folnesics, Hans, Die illuminierten Handschriften in Dalmatien (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1917), p. 50, as being in the library of the State Italian College of Zadar, in modern-day Croatia (observation by Nicholas Herman, 02/2017)
Gothic--rotunda; Scribe: Frater Faustino
One historiated initial with decorated border (fol. 1r); rubrication in red; pen flourishes throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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