University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 20

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12299

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 20

Title:

Apocryphal Gospels

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

11--

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (Box 1034:7) & positive (BANC MS UCB 20 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 61 leaves : parchment ; 143 x 105 (100-102 x 61) mm bound to 151 x 111 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (Box 1034:7) & positive (BANC MS UCB 20 FILM)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 61; 1-28 34 4-78 88 (+1 pasted in); quires 4-8 are signed a-e at center bottom of first folio of gathering.
Layout: 25 lines per page; line-ruled in lead with double lines on left.
Script: Gothic, in several hands and in both brown and black ink, 1-4 lines of majuscule accompanying large initials.
Decoration: Zoomorphic initial (fol. 21r) with beasts and foliage, blue and yellow in-filling and outlined in red. Other initials are 20 lines in dark blue on green ground (fol. 2v); 13-line in blue with orange and green foliate and silver in-filling, on stipled yellow ground; and 8-line initial in orange on silver and blue ground with green and blue (fol. 1r). Secondary initials are 3-line...
Binding: 18th cent. full leather binding over boards, with gilt decoration on spine and edges of boards. Edges speckled in red and blue. On spine: "Ms Theol. 4° 81" pasted on. On front pastedown: "6/6 " crossed out; then "6/5 [615?]" written.
Origin: Produced in Germany in the 12th century.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 20.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BS2833 L15.
1. fol. 1r-2v: "[letter of Cromatius and Heliodorus to Jerome] Partum Marie Virginis regine virginum: simul et navitatem atque infanciam domini Jesu Christi in ypoc[r]ifis libris invenimus ... quod idoneum est sanctis ac beatissimis Cromatio et Eliodoro episcopis Ieronimus exiguus Christi servus in domino salutem."
2. fol. 2v: "[Jerome's response] Qui terram auri consciam fodit ... qui ad salvatoris nostris sanctam infanciam per nostram potuerint obedienciam prevenire."
5. fol. 47r-56r: "[Pilate's letter to Claudius] Et ipso hec Pilatus scripnt [sic] epistolam ad urbem Romam Claudio dicens Poncius Pilatus Claudio suo salutem ... Quia ipsum credimus dei filium qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Finit exilium Pilati."
6. fol. 56r-61v: "[oratio dominica] Pater noster qui es in celis et cetera. In hac oratione dominica vii pectitiones esse dinoscuntur ... A quo pater nos defendat Iesus Christus dominus noster qui vivit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit liber omnino."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Apocryphal books (New Testament)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Apocryphal Gospels

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991044802139706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228865/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley