University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 66

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12635

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 66

Title:

Odes and Epodes

Author:

Horace

Horace WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 72 leaves : parchment, 1 col. ill. ; 170 x 118 (110 x 65) mm. bound to 182 x 120 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 72; 1-610 712; catchwords on fol. 1, 17v, 28v, 47v and 58v.
Layout: 27 long lines ruled in ink.
Script: Written in prehumanistic script in one hand.
Decoration: 5 painted initials on blue and green grounds with white vine-stem decoration, the first in gold, the others yellow; 2- and 3-line initials in alternating red and blue; poem titles, incipits and explicits in red; 3 lines of square capitals in red (fol. 1).
Binding: 18th cent. boards.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 66.
Former shelfmark: HOR 4.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PA6393 C2 1494.
2. fol. 1r-58v: "[Odes: rubr.] Oratii Flacii Venusini odarum liber primus incipit ad Mecenatem [text] Mecenas atavis edite regibus ... Troiamque et Anchisen et alme / progeniem Veneris canemus."
4. fol. 72v: "[anonymous sonnet by a later hand: title] Sonetto ad un amico [text] Mentre il piede i' volgea, ridendo Aprile ... E come dolce parla, e dolce ride."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

California--Berkeley

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035134329706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228910/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley