University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 70

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12639

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 70

Title:

Opera

Author:

Virgil

Virgil WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with notes in Latin and Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 966:8) and positive (BANC MS UCB 70 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 226 leaves : parchment ; 246 x 166 (173 x 87) mm. bound to 250 x 170 mm.
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 966:8) and positive (BANC MS UCB 70 FILM)

Note:

From the collection of Henry White, the manuscript passed into the library of James K. Moffitt.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 226 + iii (modern paper); 1-2210 (fol. 101 bis, fol. 144 bis) + 236; catchwords in lower right corner of verso.
Layout: Written in 29 lines: vertical lines ruled in lead, horizontal rules in ink.
Script: Round humanistic script; notes and emendations in humanistic cursive book script.
Decoration: Fol. 1 and 53: 8- and 7-line vine-stem gold initials on blue, green, and purple ground: elsewhere 6-line initials in blue on squared ground of floral and geometric patterns; 2-line initials in red and blue with red flourishes; paragraph signs alternating red and blue.
Binding: Bound in modern red morocco by Broca.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 70.
Former shelfmark: MAR 34.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PA6801.A106.
1. fol. 1r-15r, Bucolica I-X: "Titire tu patule recubans sub tegmine fagi ... Ite domum sature venit hesperus ite capelle. Explicit liber Bucolicorum Virgilis."
2. fol. 15r-52r, Georgica I-IV [each book preceded by Argumenta of P. Ovidius Naso]: "Quid faciat laetas segetes quo sidere terram ... Tityre te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi. Explicit liber quartus et ultimus Georgicorum Virgilis."
3. fol. 52v-224v, Aeneis I-XII [each book preceded by the Argumenta of P. Ovidius Naso, with the exception of book I, which is preceded first by Ovid's argumentum libri I and then by the Praefatio Aeneidos]: "Eneas primo libie depellitur oris [Ovid, Argumentum libri I] ... Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena ... [Praefatio Aeneidos] ... Arma virumque cano Troyae qui primus ab oris...
4. fol. 80r, 197r-198v, 224r, et passim: Notes and emendations of the text, in Latin and some Italian, in a later hand.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035139499706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228914/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley