University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 82

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12650

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 82

Title:

Vita Christi

Place:

Duchy of Cleve

Cleves TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

East Middle Dutch

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 642:2) & positive (BANC MS UCB 82 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 25 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 146-148 x 100-104 (88 x 60) mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 642:2) & positive (BANC MS UCB 82 FILM)

Note:

Arms of the House of Cleves in the first initial (fol. 1r); gift of Phoebe Apperson Hearst to the Bancroft Library. On front endsheet, recto: "271 2" pasted in. Front endsheet, verso, in ink, in upper left-hand corner: "7-3466". Back flyleaf, verso, in modern pencil, upper left-hand corner: "45 decorierte Seiten."
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 25; 1-28 38( -2) 44( -2).
Layout: 19 lines per page; traces of frame ruling in ink with vertical lines running entire length of page.
Script: Gothic in Franco-Flemish hand.
Decoration: 81 miniatures illustrating scenes from Genesis, life of Mary and life of Christ; some have been retouched. Two historiated initials: fol. 5r, Mary praying; fol. 24r, Christ on the cross. Floral border on 2r. Arms of the Duke of Cleve in 9-line initial on fol. 1r. Primary initials 7-9 lines in gold against red and blue ground or in blue with red flourishes. Small 1-line initials...
Binding: Cut velvet over pasteboards; doublures in paper with wheel motif on brown ground. Binding now removed and stored with manuscript.
Accompanying materials: Former binding in box with manuscript.
Origin: Produced in the Duchy of Cleve (now Germany), as indicated by the coat of arms on fol. 1r and by the dialect (East Middle Dutch), probably the second quarter of the 15th cent. The illustrations are confined to the margins and may be of a later (1460-1480?) date.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 82.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BT306.28 1450.
Fol. 1r-25v: "Die daer in den beginne ghescapen heeft hemel ende eerde ende dat meer ende alle dat daer in is om te verclaren die ontspeekelike goetheit synre goedernerenheit. Amen. [red] Ave Maria ... Als hi begrauen was o du gemynde moder ende iofferouwe du gyngeste alre bedroeste moder en wech mit groten suchten ende wenen bislu weder geleit inden armen des gemynden Johannes."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

decorated initials

Devotional literature

illuminated manuscripts

Jesus Christ

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Dutch

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035154099706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228978/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley