Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 497: De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomine Tetragrammaton

Description

Alternative title
[Untitled]
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 63
Date created
[ca. 1623]
Language
Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum
Layout
various numbers of lines to a page
Height (mm)
146
Width (mm)
102
Collation
1(4) 2(4) (wants 4) 3(4)-9(4) 10(2) 11(4)-16(4) 17(2).
Writing
in a very fine regular Italic hand
Foliation
ff. i-iii + 1-62 + iv-vii
Provenance
Binding, brown leather with the arms of Philip IV of Spain in gold surmounted by a cross and encircled with the collar of the Golden Fleece. Given by Henry Flitcroft whose bookplate is in the volume.
Additions
Printed Book 122. Parker Library Catalogue Number SP.122

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 497 has been catalogued as a printed book, though James noted that it was in a seventeenth-century Italian hand. It contains a copy of De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomine Tetragrammaton dedicated to Philip IV of Spain and dated 1623. It is bound in a handsome binding which depicts the arms of Philip in gold. This book was donated to the college by Henry Flitcroft. Whether this figure is to be identified with the renowned Palladian architect of the same name (d. 1769) is not certain.
Contents
De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomini Tetragrammaton

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xvii (1623?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tr560yg1302/MS_497.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rt858qg7298/497.pdf
Contains
  • De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomini Tetragrammaton. 1r-62r
    Note
    (1r) Title in red, black and gold capitals
    Rubric
    (1r) De / Cabala sacra · Et de / Ineffabili Dei nomine / TETPAΓPAMMATON / (the sacred name in a medallion) / contra hostes et perse / -cutores catholicae fidei /. Ad Philippum. IV. Hi- / spaniarum et Indiarum / regem potentissimum et catholicum monarcham
    Note
    (2r) Dedication to Philip IV
    Explicit
    (2v) Datum Matriti die 11 Maii 1623
    Rubric
    (2v) Vestrae sacrae Catholicae maiestatis Humillimus ac minimus seruus F. Chrysostomus à Capranica Episcopus Firminiae
    Note
    (3r) Imprimatur
    Incipit
    (3r) Ego F. Jacobus Bonauentura Hepburnus minimus Scotus, ac Linguae Sanctae Graecae Arabicae caeterarumque linguarum orientalium Professor iussu Illmi ... Cardinalis Veralli ... vidi et perlegi librum Reu ... P. Chrysostomi à Capranica ord. min. etc.
    Explicit
    (3v) In nostro conuentu SS. Trinitatis Romae
    Rubric
    (4r) Praefatio ad pium Lectorem
    Incipit
    (4r) Quae de diuinis nominibus dicuntur
    Rubric
    (5r) De Ineffabili ac gloriosissimo dei nomine TETPAΓPAMMATON יהוה aliisque eius assertis attributis nominibus
    (5r) Cap. I
    Incipit
    (5r) Omnia dei nomina in libris omnibus inuenta
    Note
    It is illustrated with a series of emblematical and mystical designs in colour which are well executed, or at least neatly, but do not admit of detailed description
    (7v) An engraving of Moses at the Burning Bush coloured by hand: a leaf is wanting after this with the text of cap. III and illustration of cap. IV
    (14r) Cap. X gives the 72 names of God in Latin, Hebrew and Greek
    (21r) Another engraving, coloured, of the Head of God
    (23r) A painting of the mystic Rose supported by a priest and a king
    (25r) The ark of the covenant carried by two Franciscans
    (26r) The Trinity
    (27r) A pen and ink drawing of Moses
    (28r) Creation of Adam
    (36v) Cap. XXVII gives the names of 72 angels
    There are 30 chapters in the first part. Then follows a fresh title
    Rubric
    (42r) Laudes Ineffabilis ac gloriosissimi nominis etc. ad implorandum divinum auxilium contra hostes catholicae fidei Auctore F. Chrysostomo Carlecto à Capranica Episcopo Firminiae
    Note
    It contains Prayers, Antiphons, Hymns (acrostic and other), a Litany, etc., and is illustrated with some few mystical figures
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 497

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