Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 497: De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomine Tetragrammaton

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Summary
CCCC MS 497 has been catalogued as a printed book, though James noted that it was in a seventeenth-century Italian hand. It contains a copy of De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomine Tetragrammaton dedicated to Philip IV of Spain and dated 1623. It is bound in a handsome binding which depicts the arms of Philip in gold. This book was donated to the college by Henry Flitcroft. Whether this figure is to be identified with the renowned Palladian architect of the same name (d. 1769) is not certain.
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De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomini Tetragrammaton

Description

Alternative title [Untitled]
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 63
Date created [ca. 1623]
Language Latin; Hebrew; Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material Vellum
Layout various numbers of lines to a page
Height (mm) 146
Width (mm) 102
Collation 1(4) 2(4) (wants 4) 3(4)-9(4) 10(2) 11(4)-16(4) 17(2).
Writing in a very fine regular Italic hand
Foliation ff. i-iii + 1-62 + iv-vii
Provenance Binding, brown leather with the arms of Philip IV of Spain in gold surmounted by a cross and encircled with the collar of the Golden Fleece. Given by Henry Flitcroft whose bookplate is in the volume.
Additions Printed Book 122. Parker Library Catalogue Number SP.122

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xvii (1623?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tr560yg1302/MS_497.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rt858qg7298/497.pdf
Contains
Title
De cabala sacra et de ineffabili Dei nomini Tetragrammaton. 1r-62r
Note
(1r) Title in red, black and gold capitals
Rubric
(1r) De / Cabala sacra · Et de / Ineffabili Dei nomine / TETPAΓPAMMATON / (the sacred name in a medallion) / contra hostes et perse / -cutores catholicae fidei /. Ad Philippum. IV. Hi- / spaniarum et Indiarum / regem potentissimum et catholicum monarcham
Note
(2r) Dedication to Philip IV
Explicit
(2v) Datum Matriti die 11 Maii 1623
Rubric
(2v) Vestrae sacrae Catholicae maiestatis Humillimus ac minimus seruus F. Chrysostomus à Capranica Episcopus Firminiae
Note
(3r) Imprimatur
Incipit
(3r) Ego F. Jacobus Bonauentura Hepburnus minimus Scotus, ac Linguae Sanctae Graecae Arabicae caeterarumque linguarum orientalium Professor iussu Illmi ... Cardinalis Veralli ... vidi et perlegi librum Reu ... P. Chrysostomi à Capranica ord. min. etc.
Explicit
(3v) In nostro conuentu SS. Trinitatis Romae
Rubric
(4r) Praefatio ad pium Lectorem
Incipit
(4r) Quae de diuinis nominibus dicuntur
Rubric
(5r) De Ineffabili ac gloriosissimo dei nomine TETPAΓPAMMATON יהוה aliisque eius assertis attributis nominibus
(5r) Cap. I
Incipit
(5r) Omnia dei nomina in libris omnibus inuenta
Note
It is illustrated with a series of emblematical and mystical designs in colour which are well executed, or at least neatly, but do not admit of detailed description
(7v) An engraving of Moses at the Burning Bush coloured by hand: a leaf is wanting after this with the text of cap. III and illustration of cap. IV
(14r) Cap. X gives the 72 names of God in Latin, Hebrew and Greek
(21r) Another engraving, coloured, of the Head of God
(23r) A painting of the mystic Rose supported by a priest and a king
(25r) The ark of the covenant carried by two Franciscans
(26r) The Trinity
(27r) A pen and ink drawing of Moses
(28r) Creation of Adam
(36v) Cap. XXVII gives the names of 72 angels
There are 30 chapters in the first part. Then follows a fresh title
Rubric
(42r) Laudes Ineffabilis ac gloriosissimi nominis etc. ad implorandum divinum auxilium contra hostes catholicae fidei Auctore F. Chrysostomo Carlecto à Capranica Episcopo Firminiae
Note
It contains Prayers, Antiphons, Hymns (acrostic and other), a Litany, etc., and is illustrated with some few mystical figures
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/kz540zc7240
Location MS 497
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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