University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 89

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12655

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 89

Title:

Opus quadragesimale

Author:

Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495

Roberto Caracciolo WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy or Basel

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1460 and 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; many marginal notes in Latin and Italian; note on fol. ii in Hebrew

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 1438) & positive (BANC MS UCB 89)

Physical Description:

Extent: 254 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (150 x 115) mm. bound to 215 x 157 mm.
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 1438) & positive (BANC MS UCB 89)

Note:

Folio tipped in before first flyleaf contains a note in ink transcribing opening rubric and providing a general description of book; in a different hand in pencil is the name Giovanni [last name illegible]. Fol. iiv contains the name Marco Barcella.
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (fol. 1r). Title at head of the 1st leaf the same as in the printed edition of Berthold Ruppel and Michael Wenssler, Basel, not after 1479.
Collation: Paper, fol. ii (modern paper and parchment) + 254 + i; 1-2012 2114; catchwords written vertically at the end of each quire.
Layout: 2 columns of 40 lines; horizontal rules in ink, vertical rules in lead.
Script: Fol. 1-5v written in an upright humanistic book hand; thereafter text written in a humanistic cursive script, perhaps by several hands; copious marginal notes in several hands.
Decoration: 1 gold initial with white vine-stem decoration on ground of blue, purple and green; 2-line initials in red, blue and black with remaining letters of initial words often in square capitals; sermon titles and paragraph marks in red; some spaces throughout for unexecuted 1- and 2-line initials.
Binding: Old vellum; 2 decorative leather reinforcements on spine; fore-edge leather ties (1 broken).
Origin: Likely from Northern Italy or Basel, Switzerland.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 89.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS uncat 1966 11.34.
Fol. 1r-252v: "[rubr.] Sancte theologie magistri necnon sacri eloquii preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Liteo ordinis minorum professoris opus quadragesimale perutilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est, feliciter incipit. [title] [Dominica] in septuagesima de facilitate bonorum operum seu bene operandi propter quam peccatores ad penitentiam redire debent. Sermo primus. [text] Multi sunt...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Sermons

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Penance

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035205079706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228985/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley