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MS. Bodl. 1029

Summary Catalogue no.: 24714

Contents

Language(s): Italian

1.
Treatise on confession
Rubric: Vtilis doctrina quo modo quis debeat peccata confiterj & post ea que inducunt animam ad confessionem
Incipit: Renouamini in nouitate ... El glorioso apostolo messer Sanpagholo
Language(s): Italian
2. (fol. 76v)
Treatise on the Mass
Rubric: De communione Corporis Christi
Incipit: Probet autem se ... Nella epistola di Sanpagholo
Language(s): Italian
3.
Hagiographical texts
(fol. 86v)
Rubric: Passione di Saiacopo apostolo fratello di Sangiouanni
Incipit: Doppo l'Asensione
(fol.88v )
Rubric: Essemplo di due perfectj & cari amici
Incipit: Ebbe nel paese di Francia
(fol. 89)
Rubric: Miracoli di Sangiouanni euangielista
Incipit: Ebbe uno philosopho
Language(s): Italian
4. (fol. 90)
Titus and Vespasian (Italian version)
Rubric: ... La uendetta di Christo fatta per Tito e Vespasiano principi Romani
Incipit: Essendo Christo uero figluolo di Dio
Language(s): Italian
(fol. 92v)
Colophon: Explicit laus deo ⟨… nelle stinche adi viij di magio MccccLxviijjo⟩
(fol. 93)
Verses
Rubric: Lalda
Language(s): Italian
(fol. 93v)
Verses
Rubric: El sauio Romano
Colophon: finito dj xxvj dj Liuglio 1517

Added on originally blank leaves.

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: i + 1 + 100 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 142 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1–101

Layout

1 col., 27 lines, written space 145 × 85 mm.

Hand(s)

Scribe identified by Marco Cursi (2009) as Andrea de’ Medici (1444–1513).

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

History

Origin: 1469, with additions 1517 ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Colophons, fols. 92v, 99v; the stinche was the debtor's prison in Florence.

Guglielmo Libri, no. 936 in his sale, 1859.

Purchased by the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2019) from the following sources, with reference to additional published literature cited in the description:
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 126 [physical description, origin]
Summary Catalogue (1905) [contents, provenance, acquisition]
Summary Catalogue, vol. 5, p. 50

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    M. Cursi, ‘"Con molte sue fatiche": copisti in carcere alle Stinche alla fine del medioevo (secoli XIV e XV)’, in In uno volumine: studi in onore di Cesare Scalon, ed. L. Pani (2009), 151–192, cat. 30 (189–90)

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2019-06-24: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson and SC