Extent: 83 leaves : paper ; 191 x 143 mm, bound to 196 x 145 mm
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Several names have been inscribed on the inside of the rear cover in 18th- or 19th-century hands, including "Nicasia Rubio Moreno" and Jose Benito Moreno, Cura Economo de la Villa de Baldeosera," who has dated his inscription "año 1835," suggesting the manuscript staying in Valdeosera at least until this year. Ms. composite codex. Title devised by cataloger. Collation: Paper (similar to Briquet "Main" nos. 10917 (Bordeaux, 1553) or 10922 (1575), and Briquet "Main" no. 11292 (Perpignan, 1552, Ancenis, 1559, Nantes, 1561, Spain, 1560), and Briquet "Main" no. 11302 (Carcassonne, 1596)), fol. viii (parchment) + iii + 72 (foliated in contemporary Arabic numerals in upper right corner: 1-64, 66-73); 18 22 320 ( -320) 420 522 612 Script: Fol. 1v-8v in mostly long lines in a careful semihybrida script, with chapter openings in a larger calligraphic gothic script with some decorative penwork extensions on the opening letters, with words or phrases in the scribe's hand in the lower margin identifying the chapter's subject matter; additions on fol. 8v in two semihybrida hands and one elongated gothic hand. Fol. 9r-83v in... Binding: 16th-century limp vellum, with front cover stitched to rear cover along the rear edge of spine, traces of original ties on the inside of rear cover, blue cloth tie now attached to the fore-edge of rear cover, quires have been stitched together along the top and bottom, stitched to the binding through an upper support of leather and a lower support of vellum, both on the outside of... Origin: Produced in northern Spain in the province of La Rioja in the 16th-18th centuries. Manuscript assembled from three discrete booklets, all copied in Spain. The parchment booklet, containing the Rule of the Confraternity of San Pedro, was probably copied circa 1557-1558 or shortly thereafter. The second booklet, which contains a confirmation of the Rule issued in 1569, was also probably... Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 242.
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