Bartholomeus de Schianchis of Parma, scribe Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 Pseudo-Cyprian, active 3rd century. Exhortatio de paenitentia Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320. Divinae institutiones Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 1040
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ff. 1-223v. [Cyprian] [Cecili Cypriani Episcopi Cartaginensis Epistolarum Liber Incipit = Letters]. Incipit: Bene ammones Donate karissime Nam et promisisse me memini. Rubric: Cecili Cypriani Episcopi Cartaginensis Epistolarum Liber Incipit. Latin. For the breakdown into the individual letters and for the bibliographic citation, please see the full descriptions of this manuscript in C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). ff. 223v-229. [Incipit vita sancti Cipriani Life of St. Cyprian]. Incipit: Ciprianus religiosus antistes ac testis dei gloriosus. Explicit: Currebant undique versum omnes ad spectaculum vobis [sic] pro devotione fidei gloriosum gentibus et dolendum. Rubric: Incipit vita sancti Cipriani. Latin. Attributed to the deacon Pontius; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) XC-XCII; ending in this manuscript as in Vatican, Reg. lat. 118. ff. 229-230. [Incipit de martirio eiusdem et cetera Martyrdom of St. Cyprian]. Incipit: Ex die qua Ciprianus martirium tulit ordo martirii eius hac lectione monstratur et declaratur. Cum Cyprianus sanctus martir electus a deo de curtibitana civitate. Explicit: que sunt in via mappaliensi iuxta piscinas cum voto et triumpho magno regnante domino nostro ihesu christo cui est honor et gloria imperium et potestas in secula seculorum Amen. Rubric: Incipit de martirio eiusdem et cetera. Latin. From the Acta Proconsularia; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) CXI-CXIII; beginning in this manuscript as in Vatican, Reg. lat. 118. ff. 230-233. [Pseudo-Cyprian]. [Exhortatio de penitentia]. Incipit: Per penitentiam posse omnia peccata dimitti ei. Explicit: Item in Apocalipsi. Memento unde cecideris et age penitentiam. Sin autem tibi [sic] cito et candelabrum de loco suo movebo. Rubric: Incipit exhortatio eiusdem de penitentia. Latin. Spuriously attributed to Cyprian; PL 4:863-868. ff. 233-240. [Duodecim Abusiones]. Incipit: Sapiens sine operibus bonis. Explicit: ne sine nobis christus esse incipiat in futuro. Amen. Explicit opus Sancti Cipriani per me Bartholomeum de Schianchis clericum parmensem in Urbe 24 februarii 1456 [the year traced over in black ink] Anno [followed by an erasure which may read"per O__?___"]. Rubric: Incipiunt duodecim Abusiones Cipriani Episcopi et martiris. Latin. Spuriously attributed to Cyprian, CPL 1106; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) Appendix, 152-73. f. 240. [Jerome] [Letter]. Incipit: Tertulianus crebris [sic] est in sententiis sed difficilis in loquendo. Beatus Ciprianus instar fontis purissimi dulcis incedit. Explicit: et a lectione sempliciorum fratrum procul est. Hec Ieronimus in epistola LIX scribens ad paulinum presbiterum de institutione clericorum et monacorum que incipit bonus homo et cetera. Latin. Jerome, Ep. 59, PL 22:585. Added in a different hand. f. 240v. [Lactantius] [Divinae institutiones]. Incipit: Unus igitur precipuus et clarus extitit Ciprianus. Explicit: ad revincendum habere potuerunt. Et reliqua que sequuntur. Rubric: Lactantius Libro quinto institutionum de iustitia capitulo primo sic inquit in laudem cipriani. Latin. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones, PL 6:551-552. Added by the same hand as the preceding text. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Humanistic. Layout: 1-24¹⁰. Catchwords written vertically from top to bottom within the space provided by the bounding lines. Signatures apparently consist of a letter of the alphabet and an arabic numeral. 36 long lines, ruled in dry point until f. 170, thereafter in ink. Double vertical bounding lines to form a space for initials. Pricking for these lines visible in upper and lower margins. Span folios: ff. 1-240v. Other Decoration: Opening leaf, full white vine-stem border, twining around a support made of 2 parallel gold strips which enlarge to form medallions for vine-stem flowers or putti blowing horns. In the lower margin, within an elaborate gold star pattern is a coat of arms. Opening initial, 7-line, in gold against a rectangular ground, the same as the border; rubric in gold square capitals. Secondary initials, 2-line, gold on square blue ground patterned in white; rubrics in pale red. The scribal colophon is at the end of the text on f. 240: . . . ne sine nobis christus esse incipiat in futuro. Amen. Explicit opus Sancti Cipriani per me Bartholomeum de Schianchis clericum parmensem in Urbe 24 februarii 1456 [the year traced over in black ink] Anno [followed by an erasure which may read"per O__?___"]. On f. iv verso, an 8-line erased inscription, s. XVII, apparently giving bibliographic information on printed editions of Cyprian's works. Assigned Date: s. XVmed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XVII exeunte, in Italian parchment; paste paper pastedowns with design of thistles; affixed to the back pastedown, a small strip of typeset paper,"Cajetanus"; free endpapers with evidence of earlier calf binding; gilt edges. HM 1040. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage--Correspondence Christian literature, Early Coats of arms. (aat) Decorated initials Italy 15th centuy. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Written in Rome in 1456 by Bartholomeus de Schianchis, who also copied Vat. lat. 1774, in 1455. The first owner's name may have been erased from the colophon, f. 240; coat of arms, f. 1, remains unidentified: erased, an imperial chief: or an eagle displayed sable. On ff. 1, 137 and 240 the stamp"Di Casa Minutoli Tegrimi." Reproductions of the stamp as it occurs in J.A. 3216 are on pl. XXII and p. 53 of Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts . . . Major J. R. Abbey; a list of other Minutoli-Tegrimi manuscripts in England is on p. 55, n. 2. The collection of the Conte Eugenio Minutoli-Tegrimi of Lucca was sold in 1871; this manuscript in the catalogue p. 30, n. 158. Eugène Piot sale, Paris, 1 June 1891, pt. 1, n. 42 to Champion. Tammaro De Marinis, Catalogue 12 (1913) n. 12, pl. VI (this catalogue not available to us); sold by P. P. to G. D. Smith, Catalogue 13 (1915) n. 338, who placed it in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, n. 128, to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.
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