Alle origini del manoscritto iacoponico Angelica 2216

Alle origini del manoscritto iacoponico Angelica 2216
The handwriting of the friar Francesco Pezzini, active in Assisi during the first decades of the 14th century, can be identified in a small group of manuscripts, almost all preserved in Assisi (a copy of the Bible (ms 16), a missal (ms 319) and the Collationes by Cassianus (ms 100). The same handwriting, however, appears in the ms 2216 of the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome, which contains one of the most important anthologies of the Laudes by Iacopone da Todi. The identification of Pezzini’s handwriting enables us to make further considerations: it confirms that the Angelica manuscript belongs to the oldest set of Iacopone’s manuscripts and it demonstrates that this copy was realized in the Assisi area (the Sacred Convent or the Porziuncola). Finally, in the ms Assisi 100 there are some, such as the Dicta by Egidio and Assai m’esforço de guadagnare by Iacopone, that allow us to argue that Pezzini worked in an spiritual environment such as the Porziuncola.