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Subject(s)

• Christian life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Christian ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Spiritual life—Christianity—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Bookseller

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 14. [Browse]

Contains

• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. De Isaac et anima. [Browse]
• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. De bono mortis. [Browse]
• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. De fuga saeculi. [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Humanistica antiqua.
• Decoration: The manuscript was decorated in two different styles, presumably at different times. De Isaac et anima opens on fol. 1r with a 10-line yellow and red initial I, with white curling vine-stem foliage, on two cutout square fields, blue above, maroon below. De bono mortis opens with an 8-line yellow and red initial Q, filled with 12 white plumes or foliage on blue ground, set on a square maroon field, fol. 38r. Another artist created the 10-line maroon initial F on fol. 70r opening De fuga seculi, filled with blue, green, and reddish-orange lily-like flowers on ochre background, projecting into margin of green and reddish-orange foliage, on gold leaf outer cutout square, outlined fine black ink, with 3 pen-decorated gold discs decorated in pen with dots and other extensions.

Binding note

France, 18th century. Black morocco, gilt, double lines framing edges, double lines for central rectangle with floral stamps at four corners, edges decorated, 5 bands, floral stamps on spine; edges trimmed and gilt; marbled endpapers in blue, pink, and ochre. Spine title: “d. ambr. mccccxxxiv.”

Contents

• 1.1r-37r: “Beati Ambrosii Episcopi De Isaac Et Anima Liber Incipit Feliciter. In patre nobis sancti Isaac uel origo satis expressa est uel gratia cui ad omnem redundat gloriam quod tanto et tam [in]imitabili uiro natus abrahe patri premium fuit ...” Explicit: “Sunt quidem uestimenta ne cui dantur ne inueterescant sed ille magis qui his utitur se seruare debet et custodire. Finis Libri De Isaac Et Anima.”
• 2.38r-69r: “Eiusdem Ambrosii episcopi De bono mortis incipit. Quoniam de anima superiore libro sermonem aliquem contexuimus faciliorem uiam putamus de bono mortis conficere aliquid ...” Explicit: “... quo niam ipse est plenitudo diuinitatis et ipsi est decus gloria perpetuitas a seculis et nunc et semper et in omnia secula seculorum amen. Finis Libri De Bono Mortis.”
• 3.70r-99v: “Incipit liber beati Ambrosi episcopi De fuga seculi. Frequens nobis est de fugiendo seculo isto sermo atque utinam quam facilis sermo tam cautus et sollicitus affectus ...” Explicit: “... quia declinare potuerunt qui per penitentiam sibi spem locauerunt euadendi et recontiliati omnis future fidem hause- rint. Per christum dominum nostrum. Amen. Finis libri De fuga seculi.”

Provenance

Kane MS. 14 was produced in Milan. The colophon on fol. 69v attests to that portion of the manuscript having been written in Milan (1434) by Milo de Carraria of Padua for Guglielmo da Casale of Montferrat (d. 1442); The manuscript's first owner was a general in the Franciscan order, 1430-1442, who was buried at Santa Croce, Florence. The manuscript's intermediate provenance is unknown. In 1920 the New York bookseller Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944) sold the manuscript to Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Kane's bookplate is on the inside front cover and his dated pencil note of acquisition on the second flyleaf recto. The Kane Collection was acquired by the Princeton University Library from Kane's heirs in February 1946.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, page 21-22.

Cite as

Kane MS. 14, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1101944099

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