Manuscripts
Works : [manuscript]
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- Description
- 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.
- Date
- [1456]
- Call number
- mssHM 1040
- Creator
- Cyprian(Opens in new tab)
- Provenance
- 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.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 175 x 270 mm
- Associated people
- Bartholomeus de Schianchis of Parma, (-419 or 420.)
- Jerome, (active 3rd century.)
- Pseudo-Cyprian, (approximately 240-approximately 320.)
- Lactantius,
- Associated organization
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

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