Description
Alternative title
Savonarola
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 68 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1475 - 1499]
Language
Latin, English
Material
paper
Vellum and paper
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).
Abstract/Contents
- 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)
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