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Manuscript
Alphonsus de Benavento, Treatise
Text title
Tractatus "De Illis Etiam"
Author
Supplied name: Alphonsus de Benavento
Abstract
Alphonsus de Benavento wrote the treatise on penitential canons and acts of confession contained in this manuscript. The colophon informs us that Alphonsus was a professor of canon law at the university of Salmanca, Spain, and wrote this manuscript in 1456 in the nearby city of Tejares. At that time there was a pestilence in the city, for which Alphonsus asks for prayers. A historiated initial in which Alphonsus presents the treatise to a bishop begins the text, and the manuscript still retains its original stamped red leather binding.
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Colophon
fols. 76r to 76r:Support material
Parchment
Thin to medium-weight parchment, well prepared
Extent
Foliation: 78
Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos
Collation
Formula: 1(2,-1), 2(8), 3-7(12), 8(10,-6,-7)
Catchwords: Catchwords written vertically, lower right corners
Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 2(2), 10(3), 24(4), 36(5), 48(6), 60(7), 72(8)
Dimensions
14.2 cm wide by 20.8 cm high
Written surface
8.4 cm wide by 13.3 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 76v:Decoration:
fol. 2r:
Binding
The binding is original.
Second half of the fifteenth century; orange-red leather over wooden boards, tooled with Hispano-Moresque design with rectangular borders
Provenance
Written by Alphonsus de Benavento in Tejares, Spain in 1456
Marques de Morante, Madrid; cat. VI, 1859, pp. 533-34, no. 11107
Bachelin, Paris, 21 February 1872, I, no.47, acquired the book from Marques de Morante
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1935, vol. 1, p. 824, cat. no. 400
The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, November 12, 1957 to January 12, 1958. Baltimore: John Lucas Printing Company, 1957, p. 60, cat. no. 139
Contributors
Catalogers: Valle, Chiara; Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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