Original scientific paper
REFLECTION OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT: TESTIMONY AND DIALOGUE ON THE VIRTUES FROM THE BUĆE CODEX
Ivana PRIJATELJ PAVIČIĆ
Abstract
This paper discusses two texts that are preserved in the codex, which is kept in Biblioteca Marciana in Venice under the signature Cod. marc. It. XI, 196(=7577), Scritture varie di argomento religioso, Nr. 7577. The manuscript originates from Kotor and it is consisted of 134 folios. It contains 38 miniatures representing allegories of various virtues and vices, some scenes from the Purgatory of St. Patrick and some depictions from the life of St. Triphon. These illuminations are attributed to the local Dubrovnik-Kotor painter Lovro Dobričević and the artisans’ circle around him. The main points of this contribution are analysis and
transcription of two (out of five) texts from the codex. The first part of this article contains analysis of the few first pages (ff. 1r-9v), which »working name« in historiography is the Tractate on vices, and it is basically a text with the testimonial character. Consequently,
in the second part of this article author discusses Tractate on virtues (ff. 4r-61v). In her analysis author investigates possibilities of interpretation of the aforementioned texts in the context of the entire codex, especially regarding the preserved illuminations.
Keywords
Codex Nr. 7577 from Biblioteca Marciana in Venice; Bućo Mihovilov Bucchia; Lovro Dobričević; confession of seven mortal sins; summa confessionis; allegories of virtues and vices; summa de virtutibus et viciis
Hrčak ID:
74295
URI
Publication date:
21.6.2011.
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