University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 4

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DS ID:

DS12479

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 4

Title:

Sermones dominicales super epistolis et evangeliis

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Thomas Aquinas WIKIDATA

Place:

Milan, Italy

Milan TGN

Date:

1298.

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 136 parchment ; 224 x 150 (182 x 95) mm bound to 237 x 163 mm

Former Owner(s):

Abbazia di Morimondo

Abbey of Morimondo 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:

Formerly in possession of Joseph Martini (catalogue 27, no. 2), who falsely attributed it to have been in the library of Paolo Giovio of Como (1483-1552); likely from the library of Francesco Giovio instead -- see Ferrari, M. "Dopo Bernardo: biblioteche e 'scriptoria' cisterciensi dell'Italia settentrionale nel XII secolo. In San Bernardo e l'Italia, [253]-306. Bequest of James K. Moffitt to...
Ms. composite codex.
Title from modern inscription on front pastedown.
Collation: [Aquinas, Sermones] Parchment, fol. i + 29; 1-38 46 (+1) 5-108; catchwords at the end of each quire. [Unidentified ms.] Parchment, fol. 57; 1-212 48 512; catchwords at the end of each quire. Both mss. numbered by openings with letters, often cropped; at the head of each column of test, so the facing pages from left to right read, for example, "31a" and "31b"; the added ms. at the...
Layout: [Aquinas, Sermones] 35 long lines; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible. [Unidentified ms.] 2 columns; 31-38 lines; frame-ruled in lead, prickings visible.
Script: Both texts written in gothic minuscule, each by one hand.
Decoration: Aquinas, Sermones: 3-line red initials, sometimes with simple flourishing; 1-line initials within text slashed in red. Unidentified ms.: 2-line initials in red or in black with red flourishing.
Binding: 17th cent. binding in brown sheepskin over pasteboard; blind tooling around edges; 3 raised bands; sewn end-bands laced in; contiguous endsheet and pastedown.
Origin: Aquinas, Sermones probably written in the Cistercian monastery of S. Maria of Morimondo in Milan by commission and at the expense of the monk Beltramo dei Redoldi, as declared by his note at the end of the text (fol. 79v). The second, unidentified text is written in a similar script, is similarly frame-ruled, and displays the same openings at the head of each page (see collation note...
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 4.
Former shelfmark: MAR 26.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS B765.T5S3.
2. fol. 80r-636r: "[unidentified ms. (incomplete): text] ... celo cum quibus gaudendum est de istis omnibus ... propter habundantiam eternalem habunda cum Paulo ... ex parte cause efficitis quando ... auctor ... ex parte cause materali quando ..."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

palimpsests (manuscripts)

Sermons

Early works

decorated initials

Commentaries

illuminated manuscripts

Bible. Epistles

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Dance

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Women

Bible. Gospels

Manuscripts, Medieval

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991044791889706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228849/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley