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| | Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library,
MS A7 | | Description: ff. 176 - Bound in paper boards - Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Catalogue 1[New York, 1954], no. 16, with ill. - Bond and Faye, p. 189, no. 1 | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 14 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/MSA7_30 | | Language: Italian Country: Italy Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-176v | | Description: - Paper - 141 x 105 mm - 13-15 long lines, unruled | | Country: Italy | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XV/XVI | Searchable Date Range: 1490 - 1510 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: Humanistic cursive | | Figurative Decoration: 14 pen and watercolor drawings, 9 of which are full page depicting events in the life of St. Bernardino of Siena | | Other Decoration: 2-line watercolor green initials on red background with yellow leaves; red sentence initials with yellow wash; ornate IHSs and IHVs in red watercolor; red rubrics | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-176 | | Author: Bernardinus of Siena | | Title: Prediche sul nome di Gesu | | Language(s): Italian | | Incipit: Infra molti et infiniti misteri della redemptione del homo uno fu il nome del nostro salvatore nel quale molti segreti sono nascosti | | Explicit: verso il nome di Iesu | | Notes: Bernardinus of Siena, 1380-1444 | 
| f. 5r
Diagram of a Roman cross in red, green, yellow, and brown with red and yellow flames; in the center, the holy monogram of Jesus, HIS
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| f. 40v
Monogram, XPS, of "Christus" in red in yellow, red and green roundel; Hebrew letters in red in penultimate line
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| f. 81r
St Bernardinus (?): a monk with halo holding his bleeding heart in the right hand and a knife in the left hand
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| f. 88r
Monk kneels before a cauldron in which he places his heart with his left hand; there is one pitcher in the foreground and one in the background; behind the cauldron is a long box, perhaps a coffin
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| f. 97r
Kneeling monk affixes heart to a cross; a sun with a face watches on and its rays touch the heart
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| f. 111r
Miniature: bust length portrait of St. Ignatius with the name of Jesus written on his exposed heart
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| f. 115r
Blind-folded monk standing on top of the world holding a club in his left hand while his right, which is pierced with and arrow, is tied to a crucifix to his right; his right forearms is also pierced with an arrow; an angel to his left holds a rope
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| f. 123r
6 roundels in red and yellow against a green background, each one containing the name of Jesus written in various languages
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| f. 125v
Man with long beard wearing monk's garb, seated holding a basket to his left side (one of the Desert Fathers?)
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| f. 128r
Monk with tonsure kneels before Christ on the cross; blood is spraying forth from Christ's wounds, striking the monk on the face
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| f. 137r
Monk with tattered garments; a skeleton to his right tears at his head and his clothes while a demon with green wings to his left does the same
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| f. 142r
The sign from the cross with "Jesus Christ King of the Jews" written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin; an arrow on the post points upwards at the sign
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