University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 9

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12483

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 9

Title:

Vite di Sancti Padri

Scribe:

Della Monaca, Andreuccio

Andreuccio della Monaca WIKIDATA

Place:

Naples

Naples TGN

Date:

1473-1474

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (Box 760:1) & positive (BANC MS UCB 9 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 259 parchment ; 314 x 218 (199 x 119) mm bound to 328 x 222 mm
Extent: 1 negative (Box 760:1) & positive (BANC MS UCB 9 FILM)

Former Owner(s):

Folliott, George

George Folliott WIKIDATA

Moffitt, James K. 1865-1955

James K. Moffitt WIKIDATA

Moffitt, Pauline Fore

Pauline Fore Moffitt WIKIDATA

Note:

Originally in the library of Giovannella Caracciolo; later property of George Folliott; passed into library of James K. Moffitt. On front pastedown: armorial bookplate of George Folliott; bookplate of James K. Moffitt; bookplate of Pauline Fore Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley. In ink on second flyleaf: "MS. on Vellum in the Gothic character; with 30 small miniatures, and...
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (fol. 100r).
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 259 + ii (modern parchment); 1-310 410 (fol. 4-6 bound in reverse order; should be read 34, 36, 35, 37) 5-1410 1510 (second bifolium of quire 15 bound in reversed position with early modern tie marks directing reader: fol. 151, 159, 153-158, 152, 160) 16-2510 2610 (fol. 10 missing); catchwords vertically along inner bounding line.
Layout: Written in 34 long lines ruled in ink; frame-ruled.
Script: Written in a round Italian gothic book hand by Andreuccio della Monaca.
Decoration: 30 historiated initials by Cola Rapicano, usually 11-line in blue, maroon and green acanthus on gold ground. 13-line initial on fol. 1 shows Paul the hermit in front of his cave, weaving a basket. Secondary 4-line capitals in gold on blue and red ground. Rubrics in red except for fol. 1, which has 6 lines of rubrics in gold square capitals. Offset of a full decorated border...
Binding: 19th century blind-tooled blue morocco with gilt fillet and gilt edges.
Origin: Written in Naples between 5 Nov. 1473 and 1 Apr. 1474 by Andreuccio della Monaca of Cava dei Tirreni, and illuminated by Cola Rapaicano, as a gift from the Aragonese court in Naples to Giovannella Caracciolo, Duchess of Termoli, daughter of Giacomo Caracciolo (the chancellor of the realm), and a mistress of King Ferrante I of Naples.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, fMS UCB 9.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BR1705.A2H6.
Former shelfmark: MAR 40.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Biographies

illuminated manuscripts

biographies (literary genre)

Hermits

Manuscripts, Medieval

Fathers of the church

Christian saints

Manuscripts, Italian

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991044796779706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228854/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley