Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

De restitutione Caietani sumula ... [etc.] [manuscript].

[Spain, between 1600 and 1625?]

91 leaves : paper ; 217 x 154 (160 x 115) mm. bound to 222 x 165 mm.

Summary of the commentary by the Dominican cardinal, philosopher, and theologian Tommaso de Vio Cajetan (also known as Caietano, Cajetano, or Gaetanus) on Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologica; and a manual in Spanish on giving confession, and organized by occupation of the sacrament's recipient. A table of contents for the second work appears at the end of the volume.

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, 91; 1⁶ 2-3¹⁴ 4-5¹⁶ 6⁸ 7¹⁸(-1); [vi], 1-64, [vii], 1-12, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.

Decoration: Manicules (f. 44v, 45-48v) denoting lines to be read with accompanying marginal annotations.

Binding: Contemporary vellum.

Origin: Written in Spain in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

UPenn Ms. Codex 923

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 923