University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 16

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12296

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 16

Title:

Commentaria in Vetus Testamentum, Genesis, Libri I et II Regum

Author:

Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636

Isidore of Seville WIKIDATA

Place:

Milan

Milan TGN

Date:

between 1175 and 1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (Box 1021:2) & positive (BANC MS UCB 16 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 144 leaves : parchment ; 240 x 160 (175 x 113) mm bound to 244 x 161 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (Box 1021:2) & positive (BANC MS UCB 16 FILM)

Former Owner(s):

Abbazia di Morimondo

Abbey of Morimondo WIKIDATA

Acquafredda (Monastery : Milan, Italy)

Abbazia dell'Acquafredda WIKIDATA

Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552

Paolo Giovio WIKIDATA

Giovio, Francesco, active 19th century

Francesco Giovio WIKIDATA

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944

Giuseppe Martini WIKIDATA

Moffitt, James K. 1865-1955

James K. Moffitt WIKIDATA

Note:

Transferred from abbey of origin at Morimondo to the daughter abbey of Acquafredda in Como at the beginning of 13th cent. (on last flyleaf is written in a 13th cent hand: "Liber Sancte Marie de Aqua Frigida"). Formerly in possession of Joseph Martini (catalogue 26, no. 12), who falsely attributed it to have been in the library of Paolo Giovio of Como (1483-1552); likely from the library of...
Ms. codex.
Title from modern inscription on front pastedown.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 144 + ii (2nd flyleaf now pastedown); 18 (+ half sheet added for table and preface of Genesis) 2-68 78 (+ one-third sheet added for table of Exodus) 8-108 118 (+ one-fourth sheet added for table of Numbers) 12-138 146 (+2) 15-178 186 (+2); catchwords at the end of each quire; quires 3 and 4 signed "iiii"; quire 6 signed "vi."
Layout: 22-23 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Caroline-gothic script by one hand; additions written by several other hands.
Decoration: 7 contemporary pen-and-ink drawings in margins, some touched in red, of a snake, fish, geometrical forms, grotesque and chimerical animals; 3- 11-line initials in red, decorated in void, some with pen-flourishing in black; 1-line initials within text in red and green; corrections in the text, marginalia and commentary often enclosed in a decorated frame.
Binding: 17th cent. goatskin over contemporary thick wooden boards cut square; top cover detached.
Origin: Probably written in the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo (founded Nov. 10, 1134, Diocese of Milan), to judge by the entry "Item Ysidorus super vetum testamentum" in an inventory of books of this monastery (inventory is part of a lectionary in the collection of Philip Hofer, De Ricci, p. 1693, no. 5), and also by the characteristic script.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 16.
Former shelfmark: MAR 23.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BS1145.I8.

Keyword:

Early works

Commentaries

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Bible. Old Testament

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991044801889706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228861/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley