University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 64

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12633

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 64

Title:

Ars poetica ; Sermones ; Epistulae; with scholia

Author:

Horace

Horace WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1200 and 1324

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 72 leaves : parchment ; 213 x 129 (153 x 70) mm bound to 220 x 132 mm

Note:

From the library of Ortenssio Barzella (1324), the manuscript passed into the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 9323) "from Thorpe the bookseller in 1836," and later into the library of James K. Moffitt. Phillipps number 9323 pasted on spine. Front pastedown: bookplates of James K. Moffitt and Pauline Fore Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley. Front endsheet, verso, in...
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment; fol. i (paper) + 70 + i (paper); 1-58 64 7-88 910; quires signed on center back of folio of last leaf of gathering; numbered on the center bottom of the first leaf of each gathering in a later hand.
Layout: 28-30 lines of text, line-ruled in lead. Texts 1 and 3 ruled for one column of text and a narrower column of gloss. Double lines running length of page on left and right. Another vertical line on outer edge for gloss.
Script: Protogothic (a rounded gothic hand with elements of caroline minuscule).
Decoration: 6-line illuminated initial in red and gold with pen flourishes; 4-7-line initials, some inhabited, in red with pen flourishes. 2-line initials in red. Initial on fol. 68r appears to be of a different style.
Binding: Full leather binding over boards; 3 raised bands. Pastedowns and endsheets of marbled paper. On spine: "Horatius de arte poetica cum scholiis. M.S.N. Memb. SAEC. XI."
Origin: Produced in Italy in the 13th or early 14th cent.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 64.
Former shelfmark: HOR 1.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PA6393.A7 1300.
1. fol. 2r-10r, Ars poetica: "Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam Iungere si velit [wormhole]rias inducere plumas ... Quem vero arripuit tenet occiditque legendo Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hyrudo. [rubr.] Explicit liber poetrie Oratis."
2. fol. 10r-45v, Sermones: "[rubr.] Et incipit sermonum [text] Quid fit Mecenas ut nemo q[ua?]si forte seu ratio dederit seu fors obiecerit illa ... Ut nichil omnino gustaremus velut illis Canidia afflasset peior serpentibus Afris."
3. fol. 46r-71v, Epistulae: "[rubr.] Incipit liber epystolarum Oratii [text] Prima dicte m[ih]i suma dicende Camena Spectatum satis et donatum iam rude queris ... Tempus abire tibi est nepotum largius equo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius etas. [erasure (of ownership note?)] Explicit liber Oratii Deo gratias s[a]l[ute]m 3 s Qui i scrisit i scribat semper a[nim]i domino vivat vivat. [another...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Horace

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035123979706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228908/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley