University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 95

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DS ID:

DS12382

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 95

Title:

Philosophia] /

Author:

William, of Conches, 1080-approximately 1150

William of Conches WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna

Bologna TGN

Date:

12--

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 801:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 95 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 72 leaves : parchment ; 232 x 142 (174 x 96) mm. bound to 241 x 143 mm.
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 801:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 95 FILM)

Note:

From the library of Alessandro Pado[v]ani, a 17th cent. physician of Forli (ownership note on fol. 1). In the 18th cent. the manuscript passed into the library of the Locatelli of Bergamo, and then into the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 9592) in 1836. On front pastedown, in pencil: "Bartholomou ." On flyleaf, recto: "No. 43" in pen and "No. 513" in pencil; also in pencil: "Payne...
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 72 + i; visible watermarks on front pastedown and rear flyleaf; 110 216 38( -3) 412 58 (+2) 66 78(+fol. 61, octavo size) 84(+1); parchment is of low quality, with many holes and flaws; medieval foliation on fol. 1-53; fol. 10 bound after fol. 11; fol. 28 and 29 removed; 2 folia (between fol. 31 and fol 32, and between fol. 38 and fol. 39) unnumbered; fol. 54-72...
Layout: Lines variable (32-41 lines per page); ruled in dry point with lines running length of page; prickings sometimes visible.
Script: Gothic script; at least 4 hands (all Italian).
Decoration: 1-3 line initials in red or occasionally blue; marginal drawing on fol. 15v.
Binding: Bound in green three-quarter roan over pasteboards with laces sewn in; title in gold in spine on morrocco title-label, "Angli de Propr. rerum m.ss. Num. 43" over arms of Locatelli family (an owl and three stars).
Origin: Produced in Italy in the 13th cent. in a university town, probably Bologna.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 95.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS B765.G95P5.
1. fol. 1r-27v, Philosophia: "Potissimum universorum expetendorum est sapientia, per quam perfecta omnium bonorum acquiritur forma ... ut animus lectoris ad cetera discenda accedat, hic iiii particule longitudinem terminemus."
2. fol. 28r-53v, Didascalicon: "Tribus modis res subsistare habent: in actu, in intellectu in mente divina hoc est in ratione divina ... [rubr] Didascalicon Ugonis de studio legendi. Liber i. de origine artis incipit. [text] Omnium expetendorum prima est sapientia in qua perfecti boni forma consistit ... Rogemus igitur nunc sapientiam ut radiare dignetur in cordibus nostris et illuminare nobis...
3. fol. 54r-59v: "[a florilegium of patristic texts on the souls of the just in hell] "Quis mihi tribuat ut in inferno protegas me? ... ubi plus in nobis valet fides qua credimus qua rerum corporalium species quam per oculos cernimus corporales."
4. fol. 60r-66r: "[commentary on Ovid's Heroides] "Pubplius Ovidius Naso romanus fuit, qui quodam tempore romanorum iuvenum inpulsus ... est descriptor veri maris."
5. fol. 66r-68v: "[commentary on the life of Virgil and the Aeneid, Books I-V] Gemmine doctrine observationem perpendimus Maronem in sua Eneide habuisse ... Itaque sensum multiformem et rationi contrapositum intelligimus per Irim multicolorem."
7. fol. 73v: Notes.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Manuscripts, Medieval

Heroides (Ovid)

Aeneis (Virgil)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991047683339706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228991/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley