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THE BOOK OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS, in Italian and Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Genoa, c.1500-1580s]
A functional and essential handbook for life in 16th-century Genoa as a member of the Compagnia del nome di Iesu, one of the lay brotherhoods set up in the wake of San Bernardino of Siena's promotion of the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus.
191 x 135mm. 36 leaves, 25 lines, early foliation I-XXXVIII, three large initials with 'IHS' monogram, one full-page miniature of the Crucifixion (lacking one leaf of text after f.5, leaves darkened and rubbed, especially at opening, tears to lower margin of Crucifixion miniature, some fading to text). Limp vellum binding (rubbed and darkened).
Provenance: The 'IHS' christogram with the blazing sun on ff.1, 13 and 14 is in the form used by San Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444), who was canonised in 1450 (his name appears in the litany at f.26v). This rulebook is for a 'Compagnia del Nome di Iesu', a lay brotherhood likely inspired by Bernardino's devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus — later additions dated 1572 (f.33), with the names of the prior Battista Riccio and the sub-prior Bartolomeo Compiano, and 1582 (f.35). These additions mention that the confraternity met at the Church of S. Maria del Popolo in Genoa — Giacomo Salusso (added inscription on inside lower cover) — Henrietta Katherine Burrell, née Brooke-Pechell (1829-1880), wife of Sir Percy Burrell, British conservative politician: her gift to the Bishop of Chichester (inscription on outside lower cover dated June 2nd 1877).
Content: Prayers and litany ff.1-13; chapters and rulebook of the brotherhood, including on the election of new members, on various punishments for those found drunk, gambling, or whoring, ff.14v-22v; Office of the Dead, litany and prayers ff.23-31; added chapters and regulations ff.32-36.
A functional and essential handbook for life in 16th-century Genoa as a member of the Compagnia del nome di Iesu, one of the lay brotherhoods set up in the wake of San Bernardino of Siena's promotion of the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus.
191 x 135mm. 36 leaves, 25 lines, early foliation I-XXXVIII, three large initials with 'IHS' monogram, one full-page miniature of the Crucifixion (lacking one leaf of text after f.5, leaves darkened and rubbed, especially at opening, tears to lower margin of Crucifixion miniature, some fading to text). Limp vellum binding (rubbed and darkened).
Provenance: The 'IHS' christogram with the blazing sun on ff.1, 13 and 14 is in the form used by San Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444), who was canonised in 1450 (his name appears in the litany at f.26v). This rulebook is for a 'Compagnia del Nome di Iesu', a lay brotherhood likely inspired by Bernardino's devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus — later additions dated 1572 (f.33), with the names of the prior Battista Riccio and the sub-prior Bartolomeo Compiano, and 1582 (f.35). These additions mention that the confraternity met at the Church of S. Maria del Popolo in Genoa — Giacomo Salusso (added inscription on inside lower cover) — Henrietta Katherine Burrell, née Brooke-Pechell (1829-1880), wife of Sir Percy Burrell, British conservative politician: her gift to the Bishop of Chichester (inscription on outside lower cover dated June 2nd 1877).
Content: Prayers and litany ff.1-13; chapters and rulebook of the brotherhood, including on the election of new members, on various punishments for those found drunk, gambling, or whoring, ff.14v-22v; Office of the Dead, litany and prayers ff.23-31; added chapters and regulations ff.32-36.
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