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Alternative title

Savonarola

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 68 + 2

Date created

[ca. 1475-1499]

Language

Latin, English

Material

paper

Layout

vellum, 22 lines to a page

Height (mm)

202

Width (mm)

132

Collation

2 flyleaves | a quire of paper | 1(8)-7(8) 8(6) 9(6) | 48 leaves of paper | 2 flyleaves of vellum.

Writing

in a good clear Flemish (?) hand, very slightly sloping

Foliation

ff. i-xvii + 1-68 + xviii (xix-xxxix blank and not imaged) + xl (xli-lxiii blank and not imaged) + lxiv-lxvii

Provenance

On f. iir: Liber Thome booth (xv-xvi) and other notes.

On f. iiv: William boothe (erased) owethe this booke.

On the vellum flyleaf at the end (f.lviv): Sum liber thome booth habitantis stauntonie. Si mea penna valet rectior mea littera fiet.

Research

The text of the manuscript was edited with a facsimile and an English version by Dr Perowne, late Master, in 1900.

Additions

15 blank leaves of paper follow ff. iiir-xviiv.

ff. 55r-68v are blank. 48 blank paper leaves follow (ff. xviiir-lviiv).

Material

paper

Vellum and paper

Summary

CCCC MS 237 is a copy, made in England, dating to c. 1500, of the Commentary (or Meditation) of Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98) on Psalm 50 (51), Miserere mei Deus, and Psalm 30 (31), In te Domine speravi. The Dominican preacher wrote this text while in prison in Florence in 1498, charged with heresy, and having been found guilty was burned at the stake in that year. The manuscript has on the first page a decorative illuminated border in English style. Savonarola's Meditation on these two psalms was much read during the Reformation period in England, although this copy antedates that time by at least thirty years.

Contents

Commentary on psalm 50 (Miserere mei ) -- Commentary on psalm 30 (In te domine speravi)

M.R. James Date

xv late

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:px171zc3908/MS_237.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rf780kh5832/237.pdf

Contains

• Girolamo Savonarola OP. Commentary on psalm 50 (Miserere mei ). 1r-32v

  Nasmith

  Reverendi patris fratris Ieronimi Savonarolae de Ferrara, ordinis predicatorum, expositio in psalmum quinquagesimum dum erat in vinculis. 1r-32v

  Author

  Girolamo Savonarola OP

  Rubric

  (1r) Reuerendi patris fratris Ieronimi etc. (as Nasmith) ... vinculis

  Incipit

  (1r) Infelix ego omnium auxilio destitutus

  Note

  Border in English style: no ground: feather-ornament and conventional foliage
  Ends

  Explicit

  (32v) quam preparasti diligentibus te. Amen

• Girolamo Savonarola OP. Commentary on psalm 30 (In te domine speravi). 33r-54v

  Nasmith

  Ejusdem expositio vel meditatio in psalmum In te, Domine, speravi quam in ultimis diebus dum vitae suae finem prasstolaretur edidit, et quam morte preventus explere non potuit. 33r-54v

  Author

  Girolamo Savonarola OP

  Rubric

  (33r) Exposicio vel meditacio fratris hieronymi Sauonarole de ferraria ordinis sacri predicatorum in psalmum. In te domine speraui quam in ultimis diebus dum vite sue finem prestolaretur edidit

  Incipit

  (33r) Tristicia obsedit me magno et forte exercitu

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (54r) et propter nomen tuum deduces me et enutries me
  (54r) Explicit exposicio etc. in psalmum In te domine speraui quam morte preuentus explere non potuit

TJames

vac.

Stanley

Lib. ab Al. 19

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 237

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